ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,641, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Condition dependent scalable utilities for an automated assistant" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can employ various utilities according to whether certain conditions are satisfied for a given utility and/or whether a particular input is determined to have a threshold degree of relevance to the given utility. The automated assistant can be customized by a third party entity, which can make the automated as...