ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,820, issued on April 29, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for correcting a voice query based on a subsequent voice query with a lower pronunciation rate" was invented by Arun Sreedhara (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for correcting a voice query based on a subsequent voice query with a lower pronunciation rate. In some aspects, the systems and methods calculate first and second pronunciation rates of first and second voice queries. The systems and methods determine that the second pronunciation rate is lower than the first pronunciation rate and determine a...