US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 15 for "Hot-word free pre-emption of automated assistant response presentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,268, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hot-word free pre-emption of automated assistant response presentation" was invented by Pu-Sen Chao (Los Altos, Calif.) and Alex Fandrianto (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presentation of an automated assistant response may be selectively pre-empted in response to a hot-word free utterance that is received during the presentation and that is determined to be likely directed to the automated assistant. The determination that the utterance is likely directed to the automated assistant may be performed, for example, using an utterance cl...