ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,885, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Bit vector-based content matching for third-party digital assistant actions" was invented by Dharmadeep Muppalla (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Matching content to third-party digital assistant actions using a bit vector is provided. A system receives an application with voice-assistant compatible actions. The system identifies the actions in the application. The system identifies content items provided by third-party computing devices. The system generates, via a machine learning model and performance data for the content items, bit vectors...