US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 12 for "Methods and systems for voice control" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,716, issued on May 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for voice control" was invented by Raphael Tang (Washington), Karun Kumar (Washington), Wenyan Li (Washington), Gefei Yang (Washington), Yajie Mao (Washington), Yang Hu (Washington), Rui Min (Washington) and Geoffrey Murray (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device may detect speech and use "early exiting" when identifying a potential operational command in the detected speech. The implementation of early exiting may be based on a variable threshold, where variable sensitivity settings for the threshold may be us...