ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,128, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Task flow identification based on user intent" was invented by Thomas Robert Gruber (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Adam John Cheyer (Oakland, Calif.), Dag Kittlaus (San Jose, Calif.), Didier Rene Guzzoni (Montsur-Rolle, Switzerland), Christopher Dean Brigham (San Jose, Calif.), Richard Donald Giuli (Arroyo Grande, Calif.), Marcello Bastea-Forte (San Francisco) and Harry Joseph Saddler (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, an...