ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,206, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Coordination of overlapping processing of audio queries" was invented by Bo Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Smita Rai (Saratoga, Calif.), Max Ohlendorf (Mountain View, Calif.), Subbaiah Venkata (Cupertino, Calif.), Chad Yoshikawa (Menlo Park, Calif.), Abhinav Taneja (Cupertino, Calif.), Amit Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chris Ramsdale (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chris Turkstra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coordinating processing of audio queries is provided. A system receives a query. The system provides the query to a first digital assistant compon...