ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,620, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Multi-user intelligent assistance" was invented by Kazuhito Koishida (Redmond, Wash.), Alexander A. Popov (Kirkland, Wash.), Uros Batricevic (Redmond, Wash.) and Steven Nabil Bathiche (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent assistant records speech spoken by a first user and determines a self-selection score for the first user. The intelligent assistant sends the self-selection score to another intelligent assistant, and receives a remote-selection score for the first user from the other intelligent assistant. The in...