ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,131, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Partial completion of command by digital assistant" was invented by Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert J Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Scott Li (Cary, N.C.) and Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a digital assistant, a command from a user, wherein the command includes a high confidence portion and a low confidence portion; determining, at the digital assistant, that at least a part of the output corresponding to the command can be performed b...