US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Communication with user presence" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,240, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Communication with user presence" was invented by Shambhavi Sathyanarayana Rao (Seattle), Anna Chen Santos (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tony Roy Hardie (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method establishes a communication connection between a first device of a first user and a second device of a second user. Request data corresponding to a request to establish a communication connection with a second user is received, and a user profile associated with the second user is determined. One or more sensors of the second device receive input data ...