ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,949, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mitigating latency in spoken input guided selection of item(s)" was invented by Adrian Otto (Mountain View, Calif.), William Byrne (Davis, Calif.) and Ashwin Ram (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mitigating latency in guiding a user, during an interaction between the user and a computing system, in selecting a subset of item(s), from a superset of candidate items, and causing performance of further action(s) based on the selected subset of item(s). In guiding a user in selecting the subset of items, various implementations enable the user to ...