ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,417, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Media arbitration" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method using media arbitration includes, while a first assistant-enabled device is performing a first long-standing operation, determining the first assistant-enabled device satisfies a co-presence condition with a second assistant-enabled device, and determining that the second assistant-enabled device is performing a second long-standing operation that conflicts with the first long-standing operation performed...