US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Managing timed tasks with a digital assistant" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,407, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Managing timed tasks with a digital assistant" was invented by Lars D. Anderson (Seattle), Vincenzo O. Giuliani (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Alexandra Klimova (San Francisco), Brandon J. Newendorp (San Francisco), Rebecca M. Swett (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jaireh Tecarro (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for managing timed tasks with a digital assistant are provided. An example method includes, at a computer system that is in communication with one or more input devices: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a natural-lang...