ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,396, issued on June 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Context-aided identification" was invented by Alex Olwal (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Ruofei Du (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart devices can be configured to collect and share various forms of context data about where a user is located (e.g., location), what a user will be doing (e.g., schedule), and what a user is currently doing (e.g., activity). This context data may be combined with fingerprint data (e.g., biometrics) to help identify the fingerprint data. For example, a location of a user may help associated speech detected at that location...