US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on March 3 for "Ambient device state content display" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,416, issued on March 3, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Ambient device state content display" was invented by Guoning Hu (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Hart (Los Gatos, Calif.), Seth Brickman (Bellevue, Wash.), Ashok Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), David Jason Jones (Burlingame, Calif.) and Sandy Huang Cook (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for sending a first instruction for a device to output first content while the speech-processing device is in an ambient state during a first time period. First feedback data is received indicating that a first action associ...