ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,675, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-user warm words" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes detecting a presence of multiple users within an environment of an assistant-enabled device (AED) and obtaining, for each user, a respective active set of warm words that each specify a respective action for a digital assistant to perform. Based on each respective active set of warm words, the method also includes executing a warm word arbitration routine to enable a final set of warm words f...