ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,056, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automatic speech recognition using language model-generated context" was invented by Jing Liu (Pittsburgh), Mingzhi Yu (Bethel Park, Pa.), Sunwoo Kim (Pittsburgh), Grant Strimel (Presto, Pa.), Ross William McGowan (Pittsburgh), Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andreas Stolcke (Berkeley, Calif.) and Ariya Rastrow (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for ASR processing using language model (LM)-generated context are described. A LM is prompted to generate words that are relevant for/may be included in a future user input. The pr...