ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,416, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Audio data processing and output improvement" was invented by Juan Carlos Montemayor Elosua (Ardsley, N.Y.) and Jesse Gottlieb (Ithaca, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are directed to, among other things, determining a status change of a data object representing an order and determining attributes of the order. The systems described herein may then determine to provide an audible alert about the order based at least in part on the status change and the attributes of the order. Predefined audio data associated with the status change ...