ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,557, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Indexing application actions for voice-based execution" was invented by Quazi Hussain (Mountain View, Calif.), Mubaraq Mishra (Belmont, Calif.), Vidhya Bhat (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam Cohen (Mountain View, Calif.), Sunny Goyal (San Mateo, Calif.), Adam Coimbra (Mountain View, Calif.), Sanjana Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Ilya Firman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mehdi Alizadeh (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Saurabh Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Indexing application actions for voice-based execution is provided. An indexer of a device recei...