US Patent Issued to Syntiant on Sept. 9 for "Prediction based wake-word detection and methods for use therewith" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,565, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Syntiant Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prediction based wake-word detection and methods for use therewith" was invented by Jes Thyssen (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Christian Vejlbo (Frederikssund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing circuit includes an audio front end (AFE) configured to generate audio data in response to audio signals received from one or more microphones. One or more special purpose engines (SPEs) are configured to: generate prediction data via a usage model; generate bias adjustment data based on the prediction data; adjust a threshold of an audio eve...