ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,256, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intuition Robotics Ltd. (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

"System and method thereof for determining availability of a user for interaction with a digital assistant" was invented by Shay Zweig (Harel, Israel), Yuval Baumel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dor Skuler (Oranit, Israel), Guy Ziv (Tel Aviv, Israel), Chen Sorias (Kibbutz Zikim, Israel) and Anna Mowszowski (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining availability of a user for interaction with a digital assistant comprises: determining if the user is present in a predetermined proximity to an input/output (I/O) device; collecting, a...