ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,317, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Assistant control via detecting tactile modulation of ultrasonic signal" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to facilitating control of an automated assistant or other application by rendering an ultrasonic signal that can be modulation through tactile interaction with physical portions of a computing device. The computing device can provide an acoustic signal via a speaker of the computing device, and the acoustic signal can be received by one or more microphones of the comput...