ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,117, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Voice query refinement to embed context in a voice query" was invented by Rajendran Pichaimurthy (Bangalore, India), Madhusudhan Seetharam (Bangalore, India) and Harshith Kumar Gejjegondanahally Sreekanth (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing contextual search results. The system may receive a search query during presentation of a video. If the query is ambiguous, the system accesses some of the frames of the video. The frames are analyzed to identify a performed action depicted in the frames. The sy...