US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on July 8 for "System and method for voice actuated configuration of a controlling device" (Dutch, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,469, issued on July 8, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for voice actuated configuration of a controlling device" was invented by Thomas Hascher (Gronau, Germany), Jason Godwin (Enschede, Netherlands) and Joseph Lee Haughawout (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition engine is provided voice data indicative of at least a brand of a target appliance. The speech recognition engine uses the voice data indicative of at least a brand of the target appliance to identify within a library of codesets at least one codeset that is cross-referenced to the brand of ...