ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,724, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Human-in-the-loop voice automation system" was invented by Keun Soo Yim (San Jose, Calif.), Ilya Firman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam Miller Coimbra (Mountain View, Calif.), Robert James Berry (New York), Mugurel Ionut Andreica (Thalwil, Switzerland), Mikhail Reutov (Zurich), Gabriel Oak Taubman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Cliff Shan Kuang (San Francisco), Michael Oh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Svetoslav Radoslavov Ganov (Alamo, Calif.) and Kalyana Ram Desineni (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to automating user interactions i...