ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,042, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Input detection windowing" was invented by Connor Kristopher Smith (New Hudson, Mich.) and Matthew David Anderson (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, detecting an event associated with the device or a system comprising the device. In response, an input detection window is opened for a given time period. During the given time period the device is arranged to receive an input sound data stream representing sound detected by a microphone. The input sound data stream is analyzed for a...