US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 15 for "Reactive voice device management" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,932, issued on April 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reactive voice device management" was invented by Sridevi Kannan (Katupakkam, India), Sathya Santhar (Ramapuram, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more user interactions directed to a set of one or more voice-controlled devices in an environment are received by a first connected device. A first input to a first voice-controlled device of the set of voice-controlled devices is detected based on the user interactions. A potential second input to the set of voice-controlled devices is determin...