ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,981, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Target-device resolution" was invented by Lizhen Peng (Seattle), Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Akshay Kumar (Seattle), Charles Edwin Ashton Brett (Seattle), Sara Parker Hillenmeyer (Seattle) and William Evan Welbourne (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for target-device resolution are disclosed. A user may speak a user utterance requesting an action to be performed with respect to an accessory device, such as a smart-home device. The user utterance may include an identifier for the accessory device, but that identifier may not correspo...