ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,066, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Invoking functions of agents via digital assistant applications using address templates" was invented by Jason Douglas (Mountain View, Calif.), Carey Radebaugh (Mountain View, Calif.), Ilya Firman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ulas Kirazci (Mountain View, Calif.) and Luv Kothari (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of invoking functions of agents via digital assistant applications are provided. Each action-inventory can have an address template for an action by an agent. The address template can include a portion having an input varia...