ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,433, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Adaptive guest mode for portable speakers" 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 adapting a guest mode for portable speakers includes obtaining a current state of an assistant-enabled device while a guest mode is enabled. Here, the assistant-enabled device is configured to allow a digital assistant to fulfill queries spoken by speakers who are not enrolled users when the guest mode is enabled. Based on the current state of the assistant-enabled device, the me...