US Patent Issued to Google on July 29 for "Combining device or assistant-specific hotwords in a single utterance" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,336, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Combining device or assistant-specific hotwords in a single utterance" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for combining hotwords in a single utterance receives, at a first assistant-enabled device (AED), audio data corresponding to an utterance directed toward the first AED and a second AED among two or more AEDs where the audio data includes a query specifying an operation to perform. The method also detects, using a hotword detector, a first hotword assign...