US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 4 for "Voice control method, server apparatus, and utterance object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,799, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Voice control method, server apparatus, and utterance object" was invented by Yoshiki Ohashi (Osaka, Japan), Satoru Matsunaga (Osaka, Japan), Masafumi Torikai (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuhiro Kuroyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice control method according to the present disclosure includes: judging, for each of a plurality of utterance objects capable of outputting voice, whether the utterance object is outputting voice; and based on a result of the judging, causing one or more of the plurality of utterance obj...