ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,156, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DevRev Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Communication platform for a connected environment" was invented by Michael Machado (Burlingame, Calif.), Parikshit Deshmukh (Pune, India), Rabi Shanker Guha (Bengaluru, India) and Anshu Avinash (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed to generate relevant responses for requests received in a connected environment. A user communicating with the connected environment may request, in natural language, an operation to be performed. The request may be augmented with the information related to the requesting user to generate an augme...