US Patent Issued to Google on July 21 for "Server side hotwording" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,854, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Server side hotwording" was invented by Alexander H. Gruenstein (Mountain View, Calif.), Petar Aleksic (Jersey City, N.J.), Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting hotwords using a server. One of the methods includes receiving an audio signal encoding one or more utterances including a first utterance; determining whether at least a portion of the first utterance satisfies a fir...