ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,531, issued on March 4, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Determining input for speech processing engine" was invented by Anthony Robert Sheeder (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Colby Nelson Leider (Coral Gables, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of presenting a signal to a speech processing engine is disclosed. According to an example of the method, an audio signal is received via a microphone. A portion of the audio signal is identified, and a probability is determined that the portion comprises speech directed by a user of the speech processing engine as input to the speech processing engine. In accordance...