ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,512, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Virtual assistant identification of nearby computing devices" was invented by Jian Wei Leong (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified...