ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,151, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Voice control with contextual keywords" was invented by Devang K. Naik (San Jose, Calif.), Madhu Chinthakunta (Saratoga, Calif.), Paul R. Dixon (Zurich), Kumari Nishu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Harry J. Saddler (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In some embodiments, contextual data is obtained and used to select a set of keywords (e.g., words or phrases) for voice control of an electronic device. When a speech input is received by the electronic device, a determinatio...