ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,442, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Contextual situation analysis" was invented by Thomas Fischbacher (Gattikon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first context update indicative of a present state associated with an application is received. A first contextual situation, among a plurality of contextual situations associated with a plurality of conditions, that corresponds to the first context update is identified. Identifying the first contextual situation includes implementing a decision tree to minimize a number of the plurality of conditions to be evaluated, identifying the first...