US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 10 for "Proactive modification or suggestion of assistant routines based on anticipated energy consumption" (Swedish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,308, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Proactive modification or suggestion of assistant routines based on anticipated energy consumption" was invented by Martin Bruse (Stockholm) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can control a sequence of operations for a routine according to whether power data indicates that energy expense and/or energy consumption can be preserved by modifying the sequence of operations for the routine. In some implementations, the automated assistant can suggest cer...