US Patent Issued to ROKU on July 15 for "Voice control device with push-to-talk (PTT) and mute controls" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,945, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Voice control device with push-to-talk (PTT) and mute controls" was invented by Dustin Verhoeve (San Jose, Calif.) and Ralph Birt (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a voice control device including a microphone, a mute control, and a push-to-talk (PTT) control. An example embodiment operates by: entering a mute state from an always-listening state when the device receives a mute cont...