ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,690, issued on May 12, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for low-power audio signal detection" was invented by Aidan Smyth (Irvine, Calif.), Ashutosh Pandey (Irvine, Calif.), Niall Lyons (Irvine, Calif.), Ted Wada (Irvine, Calif.) and Robert Zopf (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices detect wake signals included in audio signals. Methods include receiving a dataset including raw audio data, the raw audio data comprising a plurality of audio samples and associated metadata, and generating, using one or more pro...