ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,864, issued on July 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Voice wrapper(s) for existing first-party text-based chatbot(s)" was invented by Sasha Goldshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoav Tzur (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Moshitch (Jerusalem), Chita Tsai (New York) and Sharon Sultan (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to providing a voice wrapper to an existing first-party text-based chatbot to enable the existing first-party text-based chatbot to engage in corresponding voice-based conversations. The voice wrapper can include a plurality of components. For instance, the voice wrapper ...