US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Sonic initiation of device interactivity" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,083, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sonic initiation of device interactivity" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for, at a host computing device, a method of interacting with a target computing device. The method includes receiving one or more sonic waveforms from the target computing device at a microphone subsystem of the host computing device. The host computing device determines an identity of the target computing device via processing of the one or more sonic waveforms. In response to said identity det...