ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,259, issued on April 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating and/or adapting automated assistant content according to a distance between user(s) and an automated assistant interface" was invented by Tuan Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Kenneth Mixter (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Yuan Yuan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating and/or adapting automated assistant content according to a distance of a user relative to an automated assistant interface that renders the automated assistant content. For instance, the aut...