ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,132, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Natural speech detection" was invented by William E. Sherwood (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, comprising: a plurality of distributed smart devices comprising: a first smart device having a first microphone; a second smart device having a second microphone; and processing circuitry, configured to: receive, from the first microphone, a first microphone signal comprising speech of a user; receive, from the second microphone, a second microphone signal comprising the speech of the user; determine an orientation of the user's head relati...