US Patent Issued to Sonos on Nov. 3 for "Delay gating for voice arbitration" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,748, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Delay gating for voice arbitration" was invented by Aurelien Aubry (Paris) and Thibaut Lorrain (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network microphone device (NMD) is configured to (i) detect a wake word included in a voice input, (ii) transmit, to a second NMD, an indication that the first NMD detected the wake word, (iii) receive, from the second NMD, an indication that the second NMD detected the wake word, (iv) begin processing the voice input to determine a response, (v), determine a delay time for transmitting an arbitration message indicating that the...