ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,141, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Set-based active speaker detection" was invented by Ritwik Giri (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Mark Goodwin (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Devansh Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive sound information and generate an inference embedding using the sound information. The system may additionally receive a set of speaker embeddings, which may represent voice information for a set of speakers. The system may compare the inference embedding to the set of speaker embeddings to generate a result. The system may determine, based...