US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Multi-user devices in a connected home environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,848, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-user devices in a connected home environment" was invented by Anumita Biswas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Karl F. Schramm (Monte Sereno, Calif.) and Benjamin S. Phipps (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system for sharing a voice profile includes a processor configured to receive a request to share a first voice profile corresponding to a first user account associated with a first device, with a second device associated with a second user account, the second device being voice-enabled, the first voice profile being stored on ...