US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 12 for "User recognition for speech processing systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,703, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"User recognition for speech processing systems" was invented by Natalia Vladimirovna Mamkina (San Jose, Calif.), Naomi Bancroft (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nishant Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shamitha Somashekar (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for recognizing a user are disclosed. A speech-controlled device captures a spoken utterance, and sends audio data corresponding thereto to a server. The server determines content sources storing or having access to content responsive to the spoken utterance. The server also det...