ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,447, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing composite graphical assistant interfaces for controlling connected devices" was invented by David Roy Schairer (San Jose, Calif.), Triona Butler (San Francisco), Cindy Tran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mark Spates IV (San Francisco), Di Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yuzhao Ni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lisa Williams (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for tailoring composite graphical assistant interfaces for interacting with multiple different connect...