ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,937, issued on July 15, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for assisting a user" was invented by Keyvan Mohajer (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kaishin Kam (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christophe Pierret (Sevres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assisting a user. The method including obtaining a plurality of rules having condition components and action components, the action components specifying conversation schemas, detecting, by a sensor, a fact related to an environment of the user, identifying a rule, of the plurality of rules, having a condition component that is satisfied by the det...