US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Digital assistant for providing real-time social intelligence" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,983, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Digital assistant for providing real-time social intelligence" was invented by Eddy Zexin Liang (Seattle), William Caruso (Saratoga, Calif.) and Madhu Chinthakunta (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide real-time social intelligence. An example method includes while providing one or more outputs to a user of the electronic device, determining whether the user is in an engaged state based on: detecting a human in a near-field scene of the user, determining that...