US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 25 for "Selective adaptation and utilization of noise reduction technique in invocation phrase detection" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,857, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective adaptation and utilization of noise reduction technique in invocation phrase detection" was invented by Christopher Hughes (Redwood City, Calif.), Yiteng Huang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary (San Francisco) and Taylor Applebaum (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for selectively adapting and/or selectively utilizing a noise reduction technique in detection of one or more features of a stream of audio data frames. For example, various techniques are directed to selectively adapting and/...