ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,532, issued on April 22, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"Association via voice" was invented by Thorbiorn Fritzon (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Richard Mitic (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server has a pool data store that stores ambient sound recordings for matching. A match engine finds matches between ambient sound recordings from devices in the pool data store. The matching ambient sound recordings and their respective devices are then analyzed to determine which device is a source device that provides credentials and which device is a target device that receives credentials. The server then obtains or generat...