ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,070, issued on June 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for local interpretation of voice queries" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Kalyan, India), Kiran Das B (Mysore, India), Jyothi Ekambaram (Bangalore, India) and Nishchit Mahajan (Amritsar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for locally interpreting a voice query and for managing a storage size of data stored locally to support such local interpretation of voice queries. A voice query is received and compared with a plurality of stored voice queries having similar audio characteristics. If a mat...