US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on June 16 for "Systems and methods for enhanced contextual responses with a virtual assistant" (Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,187, issued on June 16, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enhanced contextual responses with a virtual assistant" was invented by Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice query is received via an input to a virtual assistant from a user. The virtual assistant determines a media context from first media content, the media context being colocated and contemporaneous with the voice query. The voice query is processed to generate a textual query and to identify a keyword from the voice query,...