ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,141, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying dynamic types in voice queries" was invented by Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Tamil Nadu, India) and Manik Malhotra (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system receives a voice query at an audio interface and converts the voice query to text. The system identifies entities included in the query based on comparison to an information graph, as well as dynamic types based on the structure and format of the query. The system can determine dynamic types by analyzing parts of speech, articles, parts of speech combination...