ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,763, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Change of digital assistant voice frequency based on matching frequency from environment" was invented by Nathan Peterson (Morrisville, N.C.), Gary D Cudak (Morrisville, N.C.) and John M. Petersen (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage with instructions executable to identify a first frequency range of sound associated with an environment and to determine whether the first frequency range matches a second frequency range at least to within a threshold. The second frequency range is a...