US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 24 for "Bypassing hot word detection for an automated assistant based on device-to-device proximity" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,801, issued on June 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Bypassing hot word detection for an automated assistant based on device-to-device proximity" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to an automated assistant that can bypass invocation phrase detection when an estimation of device-to-device distance satisfies a distance threshold. The estimation of distance can be performed for a set of devices, such as a computerized watch and a cellular phone, and/or any other combination of devices. The devices can communicate ultrasonic signals between each ot...