ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,238, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"Activation trigger processing" was invented by Richard Mitic (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utterance-based user interfaces can include activation trigger processing techniques for detecting activation triggers and causing execution of certain commands associated with particular command pattern activation triggers without waiting for output from a separate speech processing engine. The activation trigger processing techniques can also detect speech analysis patterns and selectively activate a speech processing engine."
The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2023, ...