ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,846, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Providing a communications channel between instances of automated assistants" was invented by Alexandr Maltsev (Mountain View, Calif.), Vikram Aggarwal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Moises Morgenstern Gali (San Francisco) and Joseph Pirozzo (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to interactions, over a wireless communication modality, between an automated assistant of an automobile computer system, and separate client device(s). In some of those implementations, the client device(s) can be paired with the automobile computer system, ...