US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Multi-modality active speaker detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,820, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-modality active speaker detection" was invented by Mark Andress (Seattle), Andrew David Cross (Seattle), Saurabh Gupta (Seattle) and Michael Mark Goodwin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may receive communication data associated with each of a plurality of communication devices in a first physical location, wherein first communication data received from a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices comprises first modality data in a first modality and second modality data in a second modality. A comput...