ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,659, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Providing composite graphical assistant interfaces for controlling various connected devices" was invented by Yuzhao Ni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David Roy Schairer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for tailoring composite graphical assistant interfaces for interacting with multiple different connected devices. The composite graphical assistant interfaces can be generated in response to a user providing a request for an automated assistant to cause a connected device to perf...