ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,993, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for post-ASR false wake-up suppression" was invented by Tapas Kanungo (Redmond, Wash.), Preeti Saraswat (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Stephen Michael Walsh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a speech signal. The method also includes predicting a first likelihood of a wake word or phrase being spoken in the speech signal using a first machine learning model trained to receive the speech signal as input. The method further includes, responsive to the first likelihood exceeding a first t...