US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 3 for "Conflict management for wake-word detection processes" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,390, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Conflict management for wake-word detection processes" was invented by Joseph Dureau (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing multiple wake-word engines are disclosed. An example method can include detecting sound via microphone(s) of a network microphone device (NMD). The NMD uses a first wake-word engine to detect a first wake word in the sound data and a second wake-word engine to detect a second wake word in the sound data. If these two wake words are detected within a first period of time, the NMD disregards both the first wa...