US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 18 for "Methods and systems for providing a secure automated assistant" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,038, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for providing a secure automated assistant" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to receiving user input directed to an automated assistant, processing the user input to determine whether data from a server and/or third-party application is needed to perform certain fulfillment of an assistant command included in the user input, and generating a prompt that requests a user consent to transmitting of a request to the serv...