ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,273, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ARTIK LLC (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for secure and trustworthy voice assistance" was invented by Akshobh Karthik (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Karthik Rajamony (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel voice assistants and voice assistant technologies for increasing user security and privacy. Specifically disclosed are voice assistants that run locally (that is, on a specific user device and without sending and/or receiving data from a remote server) to receive the user's voice commands and execute one or mor...