US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Privacy awareness for personal assistant communications" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,412, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Privacy awareness for personal assistant communications" was invented by Adi L. Miller (Redmond, Wash.), Roni Karassik (Redmond, Wash.) and Daniel Avigdor (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology described herein maintain the privacy of confidential information to be communicated to a user through a computing device. The technology keeps confidential information private by assessing the privacy context of the communication. The privacy context can be determined by determining a privacy level of the information ...