ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,868, issued on March 18, was assigned to JIO PLATFORMS Ltd. (Ahmedabad, India).

"Method and system for smart interaction in a multi voice capable device environment" was invented by Vishal Shashikant Patil (Bengaluru, India), Gulprit Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Rajeev Gupta (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing a custom response to a voice command of a specific user. The method encompasses receiving, at a transceiver unit [102] from a user device, a custom voice response preference setting associated with the specific user. The method thereafter leads to receiving, at the transceiver unit [...