ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,885, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Detecting and handling failures in other assistants" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for detecting and handling failures in other automated assistants. A method includes: executing a first automated assistant in an inactive state at least in part on a computing device operated by a user; while in the inactive state, determining, by the first automated assistant, that a second automated assistant failed to fulfill a request of the user; in resp...