US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 24 for "Voice interaction services" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,112, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Voice interaction services" was invented by Sang Soo Sung (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lantian Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), David P. Whipp (San Jose, Calif.), Liuyi Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Haywai Hayward Chan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for integrating voice-based interaction and control into a native graphical user interface (GUI) of an executed application. For example, a communications device may rec...