ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,221, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Query response using media consumption history" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a natural language query of a user, and environmental data, identifying a media item based on the environmental data, determining an entity type based on the natural language query, selecting an entity associated with the media item that matches the entity type, selecting, from a media consumption database that identifies media items that have been indicated as consumed by the use...