ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,979, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Naming devices via voice commands" was invented by Rohan Mutagi (Redmond, Wash.) and Isaac Michael Taylor (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for naming devices via voice commands are described herein. For instance, a user may issue a voice command to a voice-controlled device stating, "you are the kitchen device". Thereafter, the device may respond to voice commands directed, by name, to this device. For instance, the user may issue a voice command requesting to "play music on my kitchen device". Given that the user has configured the devic...