US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Privacy mode for multi-device processing" (Canadian, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,407, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Privacy mode for multi-device processing" was invented by Fabian Andreas Bumberger (North York, Canada), Eli Joshua Fidler (Toronto), Maciej Grabon (Legnica, Poland), Ashutosh Thakur (Toronto), Ieliena Cannata (Wilmington, Mass.) and Muhammad Zain Mustafa (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech processing system that enables voice-privacy mode operations for resource limited computing devices. A device that has limited speech processing capabilities/is otherwise resource limited, connects to a local host. The user may then enable a voice-pr...