US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 8 for "Warm word arbitration between automated assistant devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,585, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Warm word arbitration between automated assistant devices" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for warm word arbitration between automated assistant devices. A method includes: determining that warm word arbitration is to be initiated between a first assistant device and one or more additional assistant devices, including a second assistant device; broadcasting, by the first assistant device, to the one or more additional assistant devices, an activ...