ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,950, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Detecting conversations with computing devices" was invented by Marcin Nowak-Przygodzki (Bach, Switzerland), Nathan David Howard (Mountain View, Calif.), Gabor Simko (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrei Giurgiu (Zurich) and Behshad Behzadi (Freienbach, Switzerland).
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 detecting a continued conversation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving first audio data of a first utterance. The actions further inclu...