US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 8 for "Bot permissions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,387, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Bot permissions" was invented by Shelbian Fung (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard Dunn (Mountain View, Calif.), Anton Volkov (Mountain View, Calif.) and Adam Rodriguez (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Permission control and management for messaging application bots is described. A method can include providing a messaging application, on a first computing device associated with a first user, to enable communication between the first user and another user, and detecting, at the messaging application, a user request. The method can also inclu...