US Patent Issued to FACET LABS on Feb. 24 for "Computing devices and systems for sending and receiving a digital gift using a voice interface" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,732, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FACET LABS LLC (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Computing devices and systems for sending and receiving a digital gift using a voice interface" was invented by Lindsay Sparks (Seattle), Wilfred P. So (Mississauga, Canada), Koichi Nishimura (San Jose, Calif.) and Stuart Ogawa (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composing messages and receiving messages using text is time consuming and can lose meaning for recipients. Systems and methods are provided to generate a digital gift. A digital gift wrapper is used to precede the digital gift. A gift recipient interacts with the digital gift wrapper ...