ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,053, issued on June 17, was assigned to CYBERON Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Intelligent expanding similar word model system and method thereof" was invented by Chin-Jung Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Hsun Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Lung Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent expanding similar word model system and a method thereof are provided. The system is operated in a database system host and includes: a character analysis unit, configured to combine a plurality of key word acoustic models with an interference sound key word test set into a key word forward test module; a candidate word ge...