ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,894, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Media Solutions Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for voice based media search" was invented by Mukesh Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Lu Silverstein (Alviso, Calif.) and Srinivas Jandhyala (Alviso, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voice-based input is used to operate a media device and/or to search for media content. Voice input is received by a media device via one or more audio input devices and is translated into a textual representation of the voice input. The textual representation of the voice input is used to search one or more cache mappings between input commands and one...