ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,412, issued on April 7, was assigned to UNIFY BETEILIGUNGSVERWALTUNG GMBH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Contextual digital assistant for presentation assistance" was invented by Christian Garbin (Boca Raton, Fla.), Karl Klaghofer (Munich), Thomas Lederer (Herrsching, Germany) and Johannes Ruetschi (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for presentation assistance can allow seamlessly switching to a pre-recorded presentation, if the speaker who is giving the presentation is not able to continue with it. This can be performed via a digital assistant that is taking over from the speaker using the pre-recorded presentation. A sy...