US Patent Issued to Sonos on July 29 for "Offline voice control" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,334, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Offline voice control" was invented by Connor Smith (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As noted above, example techniques relate to offline voice control. A local voice input engine may process voice inputs locally when processing voice inputs via a cloud-based voice assistant service is not possible. Some techniques involve local (on-device) voice-assisted set-up of a cloud-based voice assistant service. Further example techniques involve local voice-assisted troubleshooting the cloud-based voice assistant service. Other techniques relate to interac...