ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,196, issued on May 6, was assigned to SYNTIANT (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating wake signals from known users" was invented by Kurt F. Busch (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Jeremiah H. Holleman III (Irvine, Calif.), Pieter Vorenkamp (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Stephen W. Bailey (Irvine, Calif.) and David Christopher Garrett (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an integrated circuit including, in some embodiments, a host processor, a digitally implemented neural network co-processor, and a communications interface between the host processor and the co-processor configured to transmit information t...