US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 15 for "Connection sequencing involving automated assistants and peripheral devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,779, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Connection sequencing involving automated assistants and peripheral devices" was invented by Irvin Owens (Alameda, Calif.), Jacky Cheung (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xinyu Weng (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to sequencing connections between a peripheral device and two or more applications, which can include an automated assistant application. The connections can be sequenced such that an application designated for the peripheral device is prioritized over the automated assistant application when the peri...