ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,069, issued on June 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automated assistant that utilizes radar data to determine user presence and virtually segment an environment" was invented by Varn Khanna (Vallejo, Calif.) and Chintan Trehan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to an automated assistant that can determine whether to respond to inputs in an environment according to whether radar data indicates a user is present. When user presence is detected, the automated assistant can virtually segment the environment and apply certain operational parameters to certain segments of the en...