US Patent Issued to Google on July 29 for "Systems, methods, and devices for activity monitoring via a home assistant" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,202, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for activity monitoring via a home assistant" was invented by Bryan Horling (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for monitoring activity in a home environment. In one aspect, a method performed at a voice-assistant device includes: detecting a sound; obtaining a determination as to whether the sound meets one or more monitoring criteria; and in accordance with a determination that the sound meets the one or more monitoring criteria, g...