ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,417, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for generating hint words for automated speech recognition" was invented by Ankur Aher (Maharashtra, India) and Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Tamil Madu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining hint words that improve the accuracy of automated speech recognition (ASR) systems. Hint words are determined in the context of a user issuing voice commands in connection with a voice interface system. Terms are initially taken from most frequently occurring terms in operation of a voice interface system. For example,...