US Patent Issued to Spotify on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for selecting a voice assistant" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,422, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Method and system for selecting a voice assistant" was invented by Daniel Bromand (Boston) and Bjorn Erik Roth (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing voice input is disclosed. The method may be performed by a device including a voice assistant manager and a plurality of voice assistants. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving an utterance from a user, detecting a category of the utterance, and communicating the utterance to a selected voice assistant of the plurality of voice assistants. The selected voice assistant may be associat...