ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,594, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Action automation across one or more devices" was invented by Quentin N Robinson (Springfield, N.J.), Namita Atri (Issaquah, Wash.), Sean Dennis Connell (Chandler, Ariz.), Joshua Virgil Marso (Redmond, Wash.), Chih Yen Lin (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kevin Mayhew (Forest Hill, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for action correlation for multiple devices is described herein. In an example, a computer system determines first contextual data associated with a first device. The computer system determines second contextual data associated with a second devi...