ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,056, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Personalized and contextualized audio briefing" was invented by Michael Andrew Goodman (Oakland, Calif.) and Bibo Xu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a personalized audio briefing to a user is performed at an electronic device. The device receives identification of information sources associated with the user. Each of the information sources is associated with a content type. The device receives an authorization to access the identified information sources and a preferred order of content types for presentation within t...