US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 1 for "Cross-device handoffs" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,915, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cross-device handoffs" was invented by Andrea Terwisscha van Scheltinga (Zurich), Zaheed Sabur (Baar, Switzerland), Michael Reutov (Zug, Switzerland) and Pratik Gilda (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first computing device may receive an indication of user input that is at least a part of a conversation between a user and a first assistant executing at the first computing device. The first assistant and/or an assistant executing at a digital assistant system may determine whether to handoff the conversation from the first assistant executing at the fir...