US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Feb. 17 for "Digital assistant audio reception confirmation using biometric state" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,038, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Digital assistant audio reception confirmation using biometric state" was invented by Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.), Kevin W Beck (Raleigh, N.C.), Thorsten Stremlau (Morrisville, N.C.) and David Schwarz (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed that receives, at a computer system, a set of biometric data readings pertaining to a user of the system. The biometric data readings are received from biometric sensors that are near the user. After receiving the biometric readings, an audible notification is transmitt...