ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,751, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Using visual context to improve a virtual assistant" was invented by Saurabh Adya (San Jose, Calif.), Sameer Badaskar (San Jose, Calif.), Akanksha Bindal (Mountain View, Calif.), Ahmed S. Hussen Abdelaziz (San Ramon, Calif.), Xiaochuan Niu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alkeshkumar M. Patel (San Jose, Calif.) and Srikanth Vishnubhotla (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example method for processing an image include receiving an image, generating, based on the image, a question corres...