US Patent Issued to Companion Labs on Feb. 24 for "Method for autonomously training an animal to respond to oral commands" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,786, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Companion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method for autonomously training an animal to respond to oral commands" was invented by John Honchariw (San Francisco), David Roberts (San Francisco), Brian Eiseman (San Francisco), Paul Mundell (San Francisco) and Michael Maynard (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for autonomously training animals to respond to oral commands includes: prompting a user to select a training protocol; prompting the user to record a first audio clip of the user reciting a voice command associated with a target pose within the training proto...