US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on April 21 for "Multi-user authentication on a device" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,112, issued on April 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-user authentication on a device" was invented by Meltem Oktem (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Taral Pradeep Joglekar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Fnu Heryandi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pu-sen Chao (Los Altos, Calif.), Ignacio Lopez Moreno (New York), Salil Rajadhyaksha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexander H. Gruenstein (Mountain View, Calif.) and Diego Melendo Casado (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, processor(s) can receive an utterance from a speaker, and determine whether the speaker is a known user of a user device or not a known...