ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,574, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic voice interaction activation" was invented by Namit Kabra (Hyderabad, India), Vijay Ekambaram (Chennai, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems. Embodiments of the present invention can dynamically predict a user need based, at least in part, on context associated with an activity. Embodiments of the present invention can then execute a remedial action that satisfies the pred...