US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 25 for "Interruption detection and handling by digital assistants" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,819, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interruption detection and handling by digital assistants" was invented by Prateek Varshney (Bangalore, India), Madhusudhan Seetharam (Bangalore, India) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tumkur District, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for managing digital assistant interaction. A query is received from a user, and a reply to the query is generated for output. An interruption for the user is detected, and subsequently an end of the interruption is detected. In response to detecting the end of the interruption,...