ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,167, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Localized wakeword verification" was invented by Connor Kristopher Smith (New Hudson, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a networked microphone device is configured to (i) receive sound data, (ii) determine, via the wake-word engine, that a first portion of the sound data is representative of a wake word, (iii) determine that a second networked microphone device was added to a media playback system, (iv) transmit the first portion of the sound data to a second networked microphone device, (v) begin determining a command to be performed by the first...