ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,752, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Conversational control of an appliance" was invented by Michael Goodman Schroeder (Crestwood, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an appliance includes obtaining a sound signal using a microphone of the appliance, analyzing the sound signal to identify a voice input including a request for a responsive action, determining an action confidence metric regarding performance of the responsive action, determining that the action confidence metric exceeds a predetermined action threshold, determining that the responsive action ...