ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,944, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Interactive application widgets rendered with assistant content" was invented by Evgeny Cherepanov (Adliswil, Switzerland), Olga Kapralova (Bern, Switzerland), Dan Vallejo (New York), Wendy Look (Zurich) and Mikhail Reutov (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can provide interactive application widgets based on their relevance to content that a user may have expressed interest in. The automated assistant can render the application widgets according to an estimated familiarity ...