{"id":618766,"date":"2026-10-02T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618766\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:12:20","slug":"sony-accused-of-infringing-voice-recognition-tech-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618766\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Accused of Infringing Voice Recognition Tech Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Group Corp. allegedly infringes five patents that cover voice recognition in a slew of consumer products, a conversational artificial intelligence company said in a new lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Cerence Operating Company, which provides AI-powered virtual assistants to a collection of major automobile makers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/CerenceOperatingCompanyvSonyGroupCorporationetalDocketNo226cv0087?doc_id=X16F26D7V29UAQCG7OJ7C04F64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the accused speech recognition technology can be found in Sony headphones and gaming systems, including its PlayStation.<\/p>\n<p>The tech is covered by US Patent Nos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/document\/X711G0870034G7310OI6419H\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11,929,073<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/document\/X53H84E94I34E1108OA8121H\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10,783,899<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/document\/XUE010603204A05GHF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8,306,815<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/document\/X50H88I42234E60088A5301H\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11,087,750<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/product\/blaw\/document\/XUE01029220S405GHF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8,194,872<\/a>, Cerence told the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sony didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Group Corp. allegedly infringes five patents that cover voice recognition in a slew of consumer products, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[363,111,139,69,275599,236847,304684,145,304685],"class_list":["post-618766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patent-infringement","tag-patent-licensing","tag-software-patents","tag-technology","tag-trade-related-aspects-of-intellectual-property-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}