ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,553, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enabling natural conversations for an automated assistant" was invented by Joseph Smarr (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), David Eisenberg (Mountain View, Calif.), Hugo Santos (Zurich) and David Elson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of a dialog session between a user and an automated assistant, implementations can process, using a streaming ASR model, a stream of audio data to generate ASR output, process, using an NLU model, the ASR output to generate NLU output, and generate, based on the NLU output, a stream of fulfillment data. Furthe...