ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,096, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Context-aware voice guidance" was invented by Jonathan A. Bennett (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (San Francisco), Marcel Van Os (San Francisco), Scott Forstall (Mountain View, Calif.), Bradford A. Moore (San Francisco), Emanuele Vulcano (San Francisco) and Seejo K. Pylappan (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A context-aware voice guidance method is provided that interacts with other voice services of a user device. The voice guidance does not provide audible guidance while the user is making a verbal request to any of the voice-activated services...