US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 17 for "Networked devices, systems, and methods for intelligently deactivating wake-word engines" (Michigan, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,978, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Networked devices, systems, and methods for intelligently deactivating wake-word engines" was invented by Connor Kristopher Smith (New Hudson, Mich.), Charles Conor Sleith (Waltham, Mass.) and Kurt Thomas Soto (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a playback deice is configured to identify in an audio stream, via a second wake-word engine, a false wake word for a first wake-word engine that is configured to receive as input sound data based on sound detected by a microphone. The first and second wake-word engines are configured acc...