ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,333, issued on March 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Multi-device output management" was invented by Ezekiel Wade Sanborn de Asis (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for modifying how an output is presented via a multi-device synchronous configuration based on detecting a speech characteristic in the user input. For example, if the user whispers a request, then the system may temporarily modify how the responsive output is presented to the user via multiple devices. In one example, the system may lower the volume on all devices presented the output. In another example, th...