ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,560, issued on June 10, was assigned to RealWear Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.).

"Voice command scrubbing" was invented by Christopher Iain Parkinson (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed towards a an audio scrubbing system that allows for scrubbing recognized voice commands from audio data and replacing the recognized voice commands with environment audio data. Specifically, as a user captures video and audio data via a HMD, audio data captured by the HMD may be processed by an audio scrubbing module to identify voice commands in the audio data that are used for controlling the HMD. When a voice command ...