ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,410, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Platform selection for performing requested actions in audio-based computing environments" was invented by Chad Ward (Mountain View, Calif.), Bogdan Caprita (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yilei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of selecting digital platforms for execution of voice-based commands are provided. The system receives an application that performs an action associated with a service via digital platforms. The system debugs the application to validate parameters of the action on at least two platforms of the dig...