ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,416, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for understanding and fulfilling verb-based succinct queries" was invented by Keun Soo Yim (San Jose, Calif.) and Adam Coimbra (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations receive audio data capturing a verb-based succinct query that includes an action but is void of any app entity and determine, based on processing of the audio data, the action and one or more instance candidates associated with the action. Some of those implementations further query an app entity database for usage information and/or capability...