ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,270, issued on April 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Example-based voice bot development techniques" was invented by Asaf Aharoni (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Yaniv Leviathan (New York), Eyal Segalis (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Elidan (Modiin, Israel), Sasha Goldshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tomer Amiaz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Deborah Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to providing a voice bot development platform that enables a third-party developer to train a voice bot based on training instance(s). The training instance(s) can each include training input and training ou...