ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,559, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mixed language model speech recognition" was invented by Alexander H Gruenstein (Mountain View, Calif.) and Petar Aleksic (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method comprises accessing audio data generated by a computing device based on audio input from a user, the audio data encoding one or more user utterances. The method further comprises generating a first transcription of the utterances by performing speech recognition on the audio data using a first speech recognizer that employs a language model based on user-specific da...