US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 23 for "Location-aware assistant" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,223, issued on June 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Location-aware assistant" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for spatialized audio feedback from automated assistants. In one aspect, the method includes actions of determining that a user input has been received at a client device, identifying, based on sensor data, one or more points of interest of an environment in which the client device is located and an orientation of a user of the client device relative to the one o...