ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,241, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Keyword detection using motion sensing" was invented by Eddy Zexin Liang (Seattle) and Madhu Chinthakunta (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one embodiment, data is received from a motion sensor, for instance, recording the motion of a user as the user utters a spoken input. A determination is made whether a portion of the motion data matches reference data for a set of one or more words (e.g., a word or phrase). If so, a task associated with the one or more wor...