ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,231, issued on March 31, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Transitioning voice interactions" was invented by Andrew Fregly (Leesburg, Va.), Andrew Kaizer (Arlington, Va.), Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (New York), Patrick Kane (Ashburn, Va.), Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.), Hari Sola (Ashburn, Va.), Paul Tidwell (Leesburg, Va.) and Pedro Vasquez (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for processing a voice initiated request by a web server are presented. The techniques may include receiving, by a web server, request data representing a voice command to a user device, the request data including an identification ...