ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,373, issued on June 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Simulation of automated telephone call(s)" was invented by Sasha Goldshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoav Tzur (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Adva Wolf (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to simulating automated telephone call(s) to be performed by an automated assistant. Processor(s) can receive user input and determine, based on the user input, that the user input includes: a request to cause the automated assistant to initiate an automated telephone call with an entity, and a task to be performed during the automated telephone c...