ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,044, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Real-time user interface navigation assistance" was invented by Kelsey Rae Conophy (Gallatin Gateway, Mont.), Diego Felix De Almeida (San Jose, Calif.), Clifford Green (San Diego), Sharat Jagannath (San Jose, Calif.), Anmol Joshi (San Diego), Shivakumara Narayanaswamy (Mountain View, Calif.), Pavel Rakhlin (San Francisco) and Sonia Sharma (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated assistant may receive a user request for assistance to complete a task, and may obtain a mapping between a sequence of steps for performing the task and a corres...