ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,895, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Hotword detection on multiple devices" was invented by Diego Melendo Casado (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander H. Gruenstein (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jakob Nicolaus Foerster (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for hotword detection on multiple devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance. The actions further include determining that the utterance likely includes a parti...