ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,001, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Joint processing of corrective and misinterpreted utterances for accurate assistant responses" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Victor Carbune (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can jointly process spoken utterances that can include at least one corrective utterance and one utterance that may have been misinterpreted by the automated assistant. In this way, the automated assistant does not need to exclusively rely on the corrective utterance to determine a ...