ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,702, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-modal digital assistant" was invented by Neal S. Ellis (San Francisco), Arian Behzadi (San Francisco), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Tyler C. Leppek (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Pedro Mari (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Gemma A. Roper (San Francisco) and Seyit Yilmaz (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for a multi-modal digital assistant are provided. An example method includes, at a computer system, while operating in a hands-free operating mode, receiving a natural-language speech input indicative of a task; in response to rece...