ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,094, issued on June 17, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"Audio cancellation for voice recognition" was invented by Richard Mitic (Stockholm), Robert Swain (Stockholm), Daniel Bromand (Stockholm), Waqar Sheikh (Malmo, Sweden) and James Robert Stansfield (Flyinge, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio cancellation system includes a voice enabled computing system that is connected to an audio output device using a wired or wireless communication network. The voice enabled computing device can provide media content to a user and receive a voice command from the user. The connection between the voice enabled computing sys...