US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 20 for "Response to sounds in an environment based on correlated audio and user events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,012, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Response to sounds in an environment based on correlated audio and user events" 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: "The disclosed systems and method correlates user behaviors with audio processing to achieve more accurate conclusions about sounds in a user's environment. These conclusions may, in turn, be used to adjust the way a device, such as AR glasses, operate or respond to the sounds. For example, audio events determined from processing speech can be correlated with behavior events ...