US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Event-detection confirmation by voice user interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,878, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Event-detection confirmation by voice user interface" was invented by Mara Clair Segal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Robert Waverly Zehner (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for event-detection confirmation are disclosed. For example, a sensing device may generate sensor data, such as from radar, and the sensor data may be utilized to determine if a predefined event as occurred. Event-confirmation operations may then be performed, such as by utilizing acoustic-event detection techniques and/or natural language understanding tec...