ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,042, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adapting automated assistant based on detected mouth movement and/or gaze" was invented by Kenneth Mixter (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Yuan Yuan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Tuan Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adapting an automated assistant based on detecting: movement of a mouth of a user; and/or that a gaze of the user is directed at an assistant device that provides an automated assistant interface (graphical and/or audible) of the automated assistant. The detecting of the mouth movement and/or the directed gaze can be based on process...