US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 28 for "Intent-based scheduling via digital personal assistant" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,272, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intent-based scheduling via digital personal assistant" was invented by Christian Liensberger (Seattle), Marcus A. Ash (Renton, Wash.) and Nikrouz Ghotbi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing intent-based scheduling via a digital personal assistant. For instance, an intent of user(s) to perform an action (a.k.a. activity) may be used to schedule time (e.g., on a calendar of at least one of the user(s)) in which the action is to be performed. Examples of performing an act...