US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Intelligent assistant for home automation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,755, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Intelligent assistant for home automation" was invented by Ryan M. Orr (La Honda, Calif.), Garett R. Nell (Seattle) and Benjamin L. Brumbaugh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates to systems and processes for using a virtual assistant to control electronic devices. In one example process, a user can speak an input in natural language form to a user device to control one or more electronic devices. The user device can transmit the user speech to a server to be converted into a textual representation. The server can identify the one or more e...