US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Voice based activation detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,851, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Voice based activation detection" was invented by Cheng Yun Yu (Beijing), Yuan Jie Zhang (Ningbo, China), Zhi Qiang Kou (Beijing), Gui Lei Yang (Beijing) and Han Xu Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: determining whether initial utterances received from a user include predetermined wake-up words. In response to determining that the initial utterances include the predetermined wake-up words, a voice assistant initiates an interaction with the user. In response to d...