ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,124, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Voice agent system" was invented by Aaron J. Neustedter (Milwaukee), Thong T. Nguyen (New Berlin, Wis.) and Paul D. Schmirler (Glendale, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes a voice agent system establishing a plurality of user-agent conversations, wherein each user-agent conversation between a user and the voice agent system is established in response to the user speaking a trigger word and the plurality of user-agent conversations continue simultaneously in a same physical area, detecting an utte...