ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,457, issued on May 13, was assigned to Matrixed Reality Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and apparatus for awakening wearable device" was invented by Yue He (Beijing), Bing Xiao (Beijing) and Chi Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to method and apparatus for waking up a wearable device. The method includes: determining, based on a detected voice signal, whether the voice signal is from a wearer of the wearable device; determining, based on the voice signal, whether the voice signal belongs to a conversation between the wearer and the wearable device with a speech classification mode...