ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,712, issued on July 1, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Artificial intelligence application assistant" was invented by Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Brian Westphal (Livermore, Calif.), Yangyong Zhang (San Francisco), Allen Lu (Issaquah, Wash.), Nathan Hurst (Seattle), Harry Lu (San Mateo, Calif.), Evan Welbourne (Seattle), John Bicket (San Francisco) and Sanjit Biswas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Applicant Assistant System may receive, from a user device, a user input indicating a query or task associated with information displayed in a user interface. The device may determine one or more components assoc...