ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,742, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Improving detection of voice-based keywords using falsely rejected data" was invented by Jun Wei (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoxia Dong (Shenzhen, China) and Qimeng Pan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein are directed to improving a user keyword detection model using user audio samples that have been falsely rejected. In some embodiments, user equipment (UE) may detect multiple attempts by a user at uttering a keyword. A true keyword that matches keyword models implemented by the UE may activate a desired function, such as initiating an...