ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,892, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Computime Ltd. (New Territories, Hong Kong).
"Method and apparatus to provide comprehensive smart assistant services" was invented by Hung Bun Choi (Hong Kong), Kai Nang Pang (Hong Kong), Yau Wai Ng (Hong Kong), Chi Chung Liu (Hong Kong) and Tsz Kin Lee (Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus supports smart assistant services with a plurality of smart service providers. The apparatus includes an audio device that receives a speech signal having a user utterance, captures the user utterance when the user utterance includes a user wake word, and sends the captured utterance to a ba...