ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,521, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Buying products within video content by voice command" was invented by Filip Verley IV (Mountain View, Calif.) and Stuart Ross Hobbie (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command determines a purchase ...