US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Expediting interaction with a digital assistant by predicting user responses" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,485, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Expediting interaction with a digital assistant by predicting user responses" was invented by Vipul Agarwal (Bellevue, Wash.), Rahul Kumar Jha (Redmond, Wash.), Soumya Batra (Bellevue, Wash.), Karthik Tangirala (Redmond, Wash.), Mohammad Makarechian (Seattle) and Imed Zitouni (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented technique is described herein for expediting a user's interaction with a digital assistant. In one implementation, the technique involves receiving a system prompt generated by a digital assistant in...