The European Patent Office (EPO) has published patent application EP4381499C0, titled 'SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY IDENTIFYING INTENT AND SLOTS IN VOICE ASSISTANT COMMANDS'. This publication, dated March 18, 2026, details an invention related to improving the accuracy and efficiency of voice assistant command processing by identifying both user intent and specific data slots within a single operation. The patent lists several inventors and includes various International Patent Classification (IPC) codes, notably G06N 20/00 (Machine learning) and G06F 40/284 (Natural language processing).

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