ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,164, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Temporary account association with voice-enabled devices" was invented by Rebecca Joy Lopdrup Miller (Seattle), Liron Torres (Redmond, Wash.), Kadirvel Chockalingam Vanniarajan (Mercer Island, Wash.), Gonzalo Alvarez Barrio (Seattle) and Dick Clarence Hardt (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for temporarily associating user accounts with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. A voice-enabled device, which may be associated with a default account, may be situated in an environment, such as a hotel room. A user may desire to utilize the ...