ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,002, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Audiovisual device" was invented by Rahul Gupta (Bothell, Wash.), Oszkar Tiberius Bajko (Issaquah, Wash.), Kristina Perez de Tagle (Kent, Wash.), Hung-Bing Tan (Seattle), Mona Mayeh (Seattle), Martin Peter Aalund (Seattle), Sudarshan Rangaraj (Seattle), Arivazhagan Chandrashekaran (Issaquah, Wash.) and Pierre Della Nave (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a housing having a top, a bottom opposite the top, a front, and a back opposite the front. One or more microphones are oriented substantially towards the top. A first camera, a display, a...