ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,333, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"VAS toggle based on device orientation" was invented by Fiede Schillmoeller (Waterlands, Netherlands) and Connor Smith (New Hudson, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As noted above, example techniques relate to toggling a cloud-based VAS between enabled and disabled modes. An example implementation involves a NMD detecting that the housing is in a first orientation and enabling a first mode. Enabling the first mode includes disabling voice input processing via a cloud-based VAS and enabling local voice input processing. In the first mode, the NMD captures...