US Patent Issued to Google on April 15 for "Creating a cinematic storytelling experience using network-addressable devices" (Illinois, New York, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,859, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Creating a cinematic storytelling experience using network-addressable devices" was invented by Alexander Rothera (Chicago), Scott D. Lange (Birmingham, Mich.) and Jennifer Drop (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for creating a cinematic storytelling experience. A user selection of a story is received from a client device. User input to initiate verbal recitation of the selected story is received. Correspondence between the verbal recitation and at least one keyword is detected, and the at least one corresponding ...