ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,954, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Voice trigger for a digital assistant" was invented by Justin Binder (Oakland, Calif.), Samuel D. Post (San Jose, Calif.), Onur Tackin (Saratoga, Calif.) and Thomas R. Gruber (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion t...