ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,015, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automating telephone call(s) on behalf of user(s)" was invented by Sasha Goldshtein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yoav Tzur (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations receive user input from a user to initiate a telephone call with an entity, and determine whether a voice assistant is able to automate the telephone call with the entity on behalf of the user. In response to determining that the voice assistant is able to automate the telephone call with the entity, these implementations can, prior to the telephone call being initiated, c...