ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,991, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for crowdsourced actions and commands" was invented by Rajat Mukherjee (San Jose, Calif.) and Kiran Bindhu Hemaraj (Trivandrum, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments facilitate the intuitive creation, maintenance, and distribution of action datasets that include computing events or tasks that can be reproduced when a command is received by a digital assistant. The digital assistant can generate new action datasets, on-board new action datasets, and receive new action datasets or updates to existing action datasets locally or v...