ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,577, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Voice control configuration using a graphical user interface" was invented by Christopher S. Del Sordo (Souderton, Pa.), Mallika Subramanyam (Warrington, Pa.) and Christopher R. Boyd (Chalfont, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of Voice Control Assistants (VCAs) for Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) devices is provided via a Graphical User Interface (GUI). GUI is presented to provide a list of one or more voice control assistants (VCAs) supported by a CPE device. A selection of a VCA is received from the list of t...