ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,885, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Voice-based parameter assignment for voice-capturing devices" was invented by Harrison Holmes Jones (Seattle) and Jonathan Alan Leblang (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for voice-based parameter assignment for voice-capturing devices are disclosed. Voice input from a voice-capturing device is received over one or more networks at a service provider environment comprising one or more services. The services implement voice input analysis and device management. Using the voice input analysis, analy...