US Patent Issued to SimpliSafe on March 11 for "Speaker control based on signal source" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,733, issued on March 11, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Speaker control based on signal source" was invented by Devin Walker (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling a speaker. In one example, a method includes determining, based on a request to operate a speaker, a type of sound to be produced by the speaker, the request being indicative of whether operation of the speaker is for a communication session or to produce a system sound, and adjusting one or more parameters of the speaker to output (i) speech, based on the request indicating that operation of the speaker is to be ...