ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,092, issued on April 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated assistant control of non-assistant applications via identification of synonymous term and/or speech processing biasing" was invented by Joseph Lange (Zurich), Abhanshu Sharma (Zurich), Adam Coimbra (Los Altos, Calif.), Gokhan Bakir (Zurich), Gabriel Taubman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ilya Firman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jindong Chen (Hillsborough, Calif.), James Stout (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Marcin Nowak-Przygodzki (Bach, Switzerland), Reed Enger (Maplewood, N.J.), Thomas Weedon Hume (San Francisco), Vishwath Mohan (Mountain View, Calif.), Jacek Szmigiel (Zurich), Yunfan Jin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kyle Pedersen...