ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,611, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Suki AI Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to detect a beginning of input spoken by a user" was invented by Valerii Garnaga (San Jose, Calif.), Raghu P. Chalasani (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas Piotrowski (Northglenn, Colo.) and Vamsi Reddy Chagari (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to detect a beginning of input spoken by a user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain, in an ongoing manner, audio information representing sound captured by an audio section over an interval of time; determine an input beginning within the interval of ti...