US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on March 3 for "Multi-modal smart audio device system attentiveness expression" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,408, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Multi-modal smart audio device system attentiveness expression" was invented by Christopher Graham Hines (Sydney), Rowan James Katekar (Redfern, Australia), Glenn N. Dickins (Como, Australia), Richard J. Cartwright (Sydney), Jeremiha Emile Douglas (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Mark R.P. Thomas (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may involve receiving output signals from each microphone of a plurality of microphones in the environment, each of the plurality of microphones residing in a microphone location of the environme...