ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,278, issued on April 22, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Alphanumeric sequence biasing for automatic speech recognition using a rendered system prompt" was invented by Benjamin Haynor (New York) and Petar Aleksic (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Speech processing techniques are disclosed that enable determining a text representation of alphanumeric sequences in captured audio data. Various implementations include determining a contextual biasing finite state transducer (FST) based on contextual information corresponding to the captured audio data. Additional or alternative implementations include ...