US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 13 for "Enabling machine-to-machine communication for digital assistants" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,231, issued on May 13, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Enabling machine-to-machine communication for digital assistants" was invented by Lars Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Wei Wang (Harrison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enabling machine-to-machine communication for digital assistants can include initiating a call with a called device, generating audio stream data having a first instance of audio and a first spoken command, which can be provided to the called device. A second instance of audio stream data can be received from the called device, can include a second spoken command, and can be analyzed...