ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,827, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatically suggesting routines based on detected user actions via multiple applications" was invented by Diana Avram (Zurich), Mugurel-Ionut Andreica (Adliswil, Switzerland), Alice Liang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrea D'olimpio (Zurich), Cliff Kuang (San Francisco), Andre Elisseeff (Basel, Switzerland), Dana Ritter (Horgen, Switzerland), Florian Hasler (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Radu Voroneanu (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to identifying actions performed by a user while the user is interacting with multiple applications an...