US Patent Issued to Sonos on Nov. 4 for "Command keywords with input detection windowing" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,802, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Command keywords with input detection windowing" was invented by Connor Kristopher Smith (New Hudson, Mich.) and Matthew David Anderson (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, receives an indication of a track change associated with a playback queue output by a media playback system. In response, an input detection window is opened for a given time period. During the given time period the device is arranged to receive an input sound data stream representing sound detected by a microphone....