ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,027, issued on May 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device naming-indicator generation" was invented by David Y Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), Akshay Kumar (Seattle) and William Evan Welbourne (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for device naming-indicator generation are disclosed. Friendly names for accessory devices, such as smart-home devices, may be utilized to generate formatted text data that includes capitalization and/or punctuation for the friendly names. The formatted text data may be utilized to generate tag data indicating attributes of the friendly name. The tag data and/or contex...