ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,616, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-user virtual assistant for verbal device control" was invented by Yuzhao Ni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David Roy Schairer (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method includes receiving audio data generated by one or more microphones of a computing device, the audio data representing a spoken utterance; identifying, based on the audio data, a user that provided the spoken utterance; identifying, based on the audio data, an automation action associated with one or more automation devices, the automation action corresponding to ...