ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,720, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Inferring assistant action(s) based on ambient sensing by assistant device(s)" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations can determine an ambient state that reflects a state of a user and/or an environment of the user based on an instance of sensor data. The ambient state can be processed, using an ambient sensing machine learning (ML) model, to generate suggested action(s) that are suggested to be performed, on behalf of the user, by an automated assistant. In some implem...