ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,838, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context-aware adaptive content presentation with user state and proactive activation of microphone for mode switching using voice commands" was invented by Kristin A. Gray (San Mateo, Calif.), Tim Wantland (Pacifica, Calif.), Matthew Stokes (Hancock, N.H.), Bingying Xia (Mountain View, Calif.), Karen Vertierra (Mountain View, Calif.), Melissa Barnhart (Pacifica, Calif.) and Gus Winkleman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, while a user device is using a first presentation mode to present content to a user, obtaining a cur...