# Roland Maas — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Roland Maas has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Voice Assistants Recognize Who is Talking](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11514901/anchored-speech-detection-and-speech-recognition) — granted 2022
  This patent describes a system that uses a recorded voice sample to identify if new speech comes from the same person, allowing voice assistants to only respond to specific users.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/roland-maas

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