US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Drop-in on computing devices based on event detections" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,047, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Drop-in on computing devices based on event detections" was invented by Daniel C. Klingler (San Jose, Calif.), John A. Aguilar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin M. Weinshel (San Francisco), Jason J. Olson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Russell S. Greer (Los Gatos, Calif.), Hendrik Dahlkamp (Redwood City, Calif.), Miraj Hassanpur (Elk Grove, Calif.), Kevin V. Bender (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sasanka T. Vemuri (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for monitoring an audio stream for triggering events are disclosed, where the triggering events may include a...