ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,633, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Playback device supporting concurrent voice assistants" was invented by Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are example techniques to support multiple voice assistant services. An example implementation may involve a playback device capturing audio from the one or more microphones into one or more buffers as a sound data stream monitoring the sound data stream for a wake word associated with a specific voice assistant service and monitoring the sound data stream for a wake word associated with the media playback system. Th...