US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Context-based control inputs for a device" (California, Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,040, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Context-based control inputs for a device" was invented by Jonathan Daniel Mendelson (San Carlos, Calif.), Jerry Oh (San Jose, Calif.), Samantha Caplan (Seattle), Brandon Fluegel (Denver), Daniel J. Sanchez (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Marcelo Alonso Mejia Cobo (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Context-based control inputs for a device are described herein. In an example, a device presents a first user interface (UI). The device determines, while the first UI is presented, a first user interaction corresponding to a first instance of a user input with the d...