ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,919, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Shared assistant profiles verified via speaker identification" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing assistant profiles includes receiving, at a profile service, from an assistant service interacting with a user device of a user, a request requesting the profile service to release personal information associated with the user to the assistant service. The operations also include performing, through the assistant service, a verification process to v...