ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,934, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Display assistant device" was invented by James Castro (San Jose, Calif.), Marc Davidson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chih-Min Chien (Taipei, Taiwan), Daniel Corbalan (San Francisco), Carl Cepress (Los Altos, Calif.) and Liang Ching Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to a display assistant device that acts as a voice-activated user interface device. The display assistant device includes a base, a screen and a speaker. The base is configured for sitting on a surface. The screen has a rear surface and is supported by the ...