ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,655, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Action validation for digital assistant-based applications" was invented by Dharma Muppalla (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Nikhil Rao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Validating actions in a digital assistant-based application is provided. The system identifies an application with a conversational interface. The system selects an action from an action repository and generates, via a natural language processor, a trigger phrase for input into the application. The system executes the application to process the trigger phrase to identify an action...