US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 30 for "Selectively invoking an automated assistant according to a result of shape detection at a capacitive array" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,152, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selectively invoking an automated assistant according to a result of shape detection at a capacitive array" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to controlling invocation of an automated assistant according to whether a capacitive touch sensor array has detected a particular input that indicates a user has positioned an assistant-enabled device near their face. The capacitive touch sensor array can be part of a touch display interface of a portable computing device that provid...