ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,171, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Zero latency digital assistant" was invented by William F. Stasior (Los Altos, Calif.), David A. Carson (San Francisco), Rohit Dasari (San Francisco) and Yoon Kim (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device can implement a zero-latency digital assistant by capturing audio input from a microphone and using a first processor to write audio data representing the captured audio input to a memory buffer. In response to detecting a user input while capturing the audio input, the device can determine whether the user input meets a predeterm...