ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,549, issued on April 29, was assigned to adobe inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spoken query processing for image search" was invented by Ajay Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjeev Tagra (Redmond, Wash.), Sachin Soni (New Delhi), Ryan Rozich (Austin, Texas), Nikaash Puri (New Delhi) and Jonathan Roeder (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image search system uses a multi-modal model to determine relevance of images to a spoken query. The multi-modal model includes a spoken language model that extracts features from spoken query and a language processing model that extract features from an image. The multi-model model determines a r...