US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on April 8 for "Dynamic and/or context-specific hot words to invoke automated assistant" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,356, issued on April 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamic and/or context-specific hot words to invoke automated assistant" was invented by Diego Melendo Casado (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jaclyn Konzelmann (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for enabling the use of "dynamic" or "context-specific" hot words for an automated assistant. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be operated at least in part on a computing device. Audio data captured by a microphone may be monitored for default hot word(s). Detection of one or more of the default hot...