US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 29 for "Device leadership negotiation among voice interface devices" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,485, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Device leadership negotiation among voice interface devices" was invented by Kenneth Mixter (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Diego Melendo Casado (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander H. Gruenstein (Mountain View, Calif.), Terry Tai (New York), Christopher Thaddeus Hughes (Redwood City, Calif.) and Matthew Nirvan Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for determining device leadership among voice interface devices. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first electro...