US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Method and device for invoking public or private interactions during a multiuser communication session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,612, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and device for invoking public or private interactions during a multiuser communication session" was invented by Jessica J. Peck (San Jose, Calif.), Niranjan Manjunath (San Jose, Calif.) and Willem Mattelaer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of invoking public and private interactions during a multiuser communication session includes presenting a multiuser communication session; detecting a user invocation input that corresponds to a trigger to a digital assistant; detecting a user search input that corresponds to a request for i...