US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 2 for "Facilitating virtual or physical assistant interactions with virtual objects in a virtual environment" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,666, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Facilitating virtual or physical assistant interactions with virtual objects in a virtual environment" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can be accessible via a virtual environment for controlling features of the virtual environment and/or devices in a physical environment of the user. When the automated assistant is invoked, the automated assistant can materialize in the virtual environment according to any ...