ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,967, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Techniques for recognizing alternative input via gesture recognition tuples for user interactions with assistant systems" was invented by Paul Anthony Crook (Newcastle, Wash.), Xiaohu Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Francislav P. Penov (Kirkland, Wash.) and Rajen Subba (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request from a first user from a client system associated with a first user, wherein the user request comprise a gesture-input from the first user and a speech-input from the first u...