US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Systems and techniques for using a digital assistant with an enhanced endpointer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,038, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and techniques for using a digital assistant with an enhanced endpointer" was invented by Angela H. Lee (Saratoga, Calif.), Tien Dung T. Tran (Cupertino, Calif.), Nicholas L. Tzou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Garrett L. Weinberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example process includes: receiving an audio stream; and while receiving the audio stream: in accordance with a determination, based on a semantic analysis of at least a portion of the audio stream, that a user request in the at least a portion of the audio stream is complete: pr...