ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,580, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"System for recognizing and responding to environmental noises" was invented by John Daniel Thimsen (Seattle), Gregory Michael Hart (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Ryan Paul Thomas (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio controlled assistant captures environmental noise and converts the environmental noise into audio signals. The audio signals are provided to a system which analyzes the audio signals for a plurality of audio prompts, which have been customized for the acoustic environment surrounding the audio controlled assistant by an acoustic ...