ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,502, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"On-device commands utilizing utterance patterns" was invented by Mark Aiken (Seattle), Ritu Jain (Newcastle, Wash.) and Caglar Iskender (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for caching on-device commands utilizing utterance patterns are disclosed. For example, user utterances and resulting selected commands are analyzed to determine which utterances result in consistently-selected commands. Pattern data is generated indicating an association between these utterances and commands. The pattern data is stored in an on-device storage...