ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,340, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PELOTON INTERACTIVE INC. (New York).

"Language agnostic command-understanding digital assistant" was invented by David Patterson (Jordanstown, Great Britain), Vladimir Dobrynin (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and Gary Russell Marrs (Ballymena, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are provided for crowdsourcing actions and commands of a digital assistant application, irrespective of the languages spoken by users of the digital assistant application. Techniques described herein enable the on-boarding of actions datasets, wh...