ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,888, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Talk back from actions in applications" was invented by Mark Robinson (Union City, Calif.), Matan Levi (Belmont, Calif.), Kiran Bindhu Hemaraj (Trivandrum, India) and Rajat Mukherjee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to providing talk back automation for applications installed on a mobile device. To do so actions (e.g., talk back features) can be created, via the digital assistant, by recording a series of events that are typically provided by a u...