US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Personalized device routines" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,963, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Personalized device routines" was invented by Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Soyoung Kim (Vancouver, Canada), Maisie Wang (Seattle) and Kunal Pramod Ghogale (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for personalized device routines include determining devices associated with user account data and generating device usage data indicating aspects of smart device usage over a period of time. The usage data may then be utilized to identify candidate smart devices, time indicators, and trigger event types to associate with candidate routines. O...