ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,488, issued on June 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Account association for voice-enabled devices" was invented by Anand Kishor Mehta (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for account association with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. For example, a voice-enabled device situated in a managed environment, such as a hotel room, may be taken by a temporary resident or guest of the environment. Upon determining that the device has been removed from the environment, a device identifier associated with the device may be dissociated from components and/or services associated with environment a...