ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,112, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"World knowledge triggers" was invented by Fergus Gerard Hurley (San Francisco) and Robin Dua (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, for associating actions with events that are determined independent of the action type of the action. A system receives, from a user device, identification of an action to be taken, the action being one of a plurality of action types, and an identification of a first event that is determined independent of the action type and for which the occurrence of the first event may be determined by t...