US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 24 for "Arbitration between automated assistant devices based on interaction cues" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,160, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Arbitration between automated assistant devices based on interaction cues" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for arbitration between automated assistant devices based on interaction cues. A method includes: receiving, via one or more microphones of a first computing device, first audio data that captures a spoken utterance of a user; determining that each of one or more additional computing devices has detected the spoken utterance of the user; determining that hotword arbitration is...