ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,798, issued on June 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Providing suggested voice-based action queries" was invented by Vikram Aggarwal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Pravir Kumar Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology of the disclosure may facilitate user discovery of various voice-based action queries that can be spoken to initiate computer-based actions, such as voice-based action queries that can be provided as spoken input to a computing device to initiate computer-based actions that are particularized to content being viewed or otherwise consumed by the user on the computing device....