ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,525, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Voice interaction architecture with intelligent background noise cancellation" was invented by Tony David (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice interaction architecture has a hands-free, electronic voice controlled assistant that permits users to verbally request information from cloud services. The voice controlled assistant may be positioned in a room to receive voice commands from the user. The voice controlled assistant may also pick up background sources of speech, music, or other noise, such as from a television or stereo system, whic...