ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,585, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-modal input on an electronic device" was invented by Brandon M. Ballinger (San Franciso, Calif.), Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Michael H. Cohen (Portola Valley, Calif.), William J. Byrne (Davis, Calif.), Gudmundur Hafsteinsson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Michael J. Lebeau (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken ...