ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,652, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System(s) and method(s) for causing contextually relevant emoji(s) to be visually rendered for presentation to user(s) in smart dictation" was invented by Ajay Gokhale (Los Angeles), Jiawei Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Alvin Abdagic (Zurich), Adrien Olczak (Irvine, Calif.), Alessandro Agostini (Zurich), Alexander Robertson (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Cristian Udrescu (Zurich), Jackie Xiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jennifer Daniel (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Keqian Yan (Shanghai), Mehek Sharma (Thalwil, Switzerland), Nicolo D'Ercole (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Yang Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and Dror Ayalon (New York).

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