ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,831, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Role assignment for intelligent virtual assistants" was invented by Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Radha Srinivasan (Bangalore, India) and Sidharth Ullal (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying a cluster of users with a plurality of devices, where each user from the cluster of users is associated with at least one device from the plurality of devices. The method also includes identifying an authorized user from the cluster of users to delegate role assignments...