ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,461, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using conjunctions in a voice input to cause a search application to wait for additional inputs" was invented by Susanto Sen (Karnataka, India) and Charishma Chundi (Andhra Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search is performed based on a voice input combined with user selection of entities displayed on a display screen as well as real-world entities. A voice input is received from the user by a media device, as well as a selection of a first entity being displayed on the media device. A conjunction spoken in the voice ...