US Patent Issued to Google on May 27 for "Algorithmic determination of a story readers discontinuation of reading" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,533, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Algorithmic determination of a story readers discontinuation of reading" was invented by Chaitanya Gharpure (Santa Clara, Calif.), Evan Fisher (San Francisco), Eric Liu (Redwood City, Calif.), Peng Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Emily Hou (Mountain View, Calif.) and Victoria Fang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to detect when a user has discontinued reading a text source. An example method includes receiving audio data comprising a spoken word associated with a ...