ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,679, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Resolving automated assistant requests that are based on image(s) and/or other sensor data" was invented by Ibrahim Badr (Zurich), Nils Grimsmo (Adliswil, Switzerland) and Gokhan Bakir (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are described related to causing processing of sensor data to be performed in response to determining a request related to an environmental object that is likely captured by the sensor data. Some implementations further relate to determining whether the request is resolvable based on the pro...