ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,172, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Streaming tasks in a multiple device environment" was invented by Andrew J. Sinesio (Saratoga, Calif.), Alexandr N. Abramets (San Jose, Calif.), Ivana M. Hong (Lake Forest, Calif.), Ryan R. Klems (Tucson, Ariz.), Catherine M. Loo (Los Angeles), Daniel J. Mandel (Tucson, Ariz.), Ryan M. Orr (La Honda, Calif.) and Zeyad H. Saleh (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An exemplary process includes, at a first user device with one or more processors and memory: receiving an audio ...