ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,880, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Passive disambiguation of assistant commands" was invented by Brett Barros (San Mateo, Calif.) and Theo Goguely (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can initialize execution of an assistant command associated with an interpretation that is predicted to be responsive to a user input, while simultaneously providing suggestions for alternative assistant command(s) associated with alternative interpretation(s) that is/are also predicted to be responsive to the user input. The a...