ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,351, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Error detection and correction for audio cache" was invented by Rui Min (Vienna, Va.), Stefan Deichmann (Alexandria, Va.) and Hongcheng Wang (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio file associated with a user voice query may be received at a user device. The audio file may be compared to a plurality of references, such as cache entries, corresponding to a plurality of other voice queries. Based on a determination that the voice query corresponds to one of the references, an operation associated with the voice query may be execu...