US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 25 for "Joining users to communications via voice commands" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,153, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Joining users to communications via voice commands" was invented by Ty Loren Carlson (Redmond, Wash.) and Rohan Mutagi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for joining a device of a third user to a communication between a device of a first user and a device of a second user are described herein. For instance, two or more users may utilize respective computing devices to engage in a telephone call, a video call, an instant-messaging session, or any other type of communication in which the users communicate with each other audibly and/or...