US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 22 for "Voice detection by multiple devices" (Massachusetts, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,035, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Voice detection by multiple devices" was invented by Jonathon Reilly (Cambridge, Mass.), Gregory Burlingame (Woburn, Mass.), Christopher Butts (Evanston, Ill.), Romi Kadri (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan P. Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are example techniques for voice detection by multiple NMDs. An example implementation may involve one or more servers receiving, via a network interface, data representing multiple audio recordings of a voice input spoken by a given user, each audio recording recorded by a respective ...