ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,800, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LUCYTECH S.R.L. (Genoa, Italy).

"Voice assistance system" was invented by Alessio Arangia (Genoa, Italy), Carmelo Chiarenza (Genoa, Italy), Stefania Nardacchione (Genoa, Italy), Corinna Mossa (Genoa, Italy) and Luigi Toffoletti (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice assistance system is described, comprising a microphone, a processor with memory instructions configured to receive an audio input of at least one user from the microphone to identify at least one object associated with a symbol of a database, determine the preferred language associated with the symbol, transmit a wirele...