ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,425, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data routing in a multi-assistant context" was invented by David Henry (New York), Kenneth Chung Leung Chan (Burnaby, Canada), Akshai Prabhu (Toronto), Yilin Zhu (North York, Canada) and Alain Soquet (Mialet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for routing data, in a system including multiple assistants, are described. A user device may store configuration data for a virtual assistant, where the configuration data includes a virtual assistant identifier, one or more resource identifiers, and optionally a virtual assistant name. A resource identi...