# Sri Harish Reddy Mallidi — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Sri Harish Reddy Mallidi has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Smart Speakers Know You're Talking to Them After a Command](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11361763/detecting-system-directed-speech) — granted 2022
  This patent describes how a smart speaker system can tell if follow-up speech is meant for it, even without a "wake word," by analyzing voice activity and partial speech recognition results using an AI model.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/sri-harish-reddy-mallidi

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