ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,856, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated assistants with conference capabilities" was invented by Marcin Nowak-Przygodzki (Bach, Switzerland), Jan Lamecki (Zurich) and Behshad Behzadi (Freienbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described related to enabling automated assistants to enter into a "conference mode" in which they can "participate" in meetings between multiple human participants and perform various functions described herein. In various implementations, an automated assistant implemented at least in part on conference computing device(s) may be set to...