ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,578, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system of audio false keyphrase rejection using speaker recognition" was invented by Jacek Ossowski (Gdansk, Poland), Tobias Bocklet (Munich) and Kuba Lopatka (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques related to a method and system of audio false keyphrase rejection using speaker recognition are described herein. Such techniques use speaker recognition of a computer originated voice to omit actions triggered when a keyphrase is present in captured audio and omitted when speech of the captured audio was spoken by the computer origina...