ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,460, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system of environment-sensitive wake-on-voice initiation using ultrasound" was invented by Sumod Cherukkate (Bangalore, India), Srikanth Potluri (Folsom, Calif.), Ajesh K K (Bangalore, India) and Xintian Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, article, and method of environment-sensitive wake-on-voice initiation uses ultrasound signals."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/133,323.

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