ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,634, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Contextual assistant using mouse pointing or touch cues" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a contextual assistant to use mouse pointing or touch cues includes receiving audio data corresponding to a query spoken by a user, receiving, in a graphical user interface displayed on a screen, a user input indication indicating a spatial input applied at a first location on the screen, and processing the audio data to determine a transcription of the query. The method also includes performing query interpretatio...