ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,096, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Speech recognition using dialog history" was invented by Behnam Hedayatnia (San Francisco), Anirudh Raju (San Jose, Calif.), Ankur Gandhe (Bothell, Wash.), Chandra Prakash Khatri (San Jose, Calif.), Ariya Rastrow (Seattle), Anushree Venkatesh (San Mateo, Calif.), Arindam Mandal (Redwood City, Calif.), Raefer Christopher Gabriel (San Jose, Calif.) and Ahmad Shikib Mehri (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system for rescoring automatic speech recognition hypotheses for conversational devices that have multi-turn dialogs wit...