US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Interacting with a virtual assistant to coordinate and perform actions" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,620, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Interacting with a virtual assistant to coordinate and perform actions" was invented by Gary Zhong (Seattle), Jonathan Alan Leblang (Menlo Park, Calif.), Aakarsh Nair (Lynnwood, Calif.) and Collin Charles Davis (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed for interacting with a virtual assistant to coordinate, recommend and perform actions. According to some examples, a user may use their voice to interact with a virtual assistant to receive recommendations relating to determining when to perform one or more actions. For example, a user...