US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 4 for "Initializing a conversation with an automated agent via selectable graphical element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,764, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Initializing a conversation with an automated agent via selectable graphical element" was invented by Vikram Aggarwal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dina Elhaddad (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for using selectable elements to invoke an automated assistant at a computing device. While operating the computing device, a user may not be aware that the automated assistant can be invoked according to certain invocation phrases. In order to inform the user of the functionality of t...