US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 1 for "Visual and audio multimodal searching system" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,386, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Visual and audio multimodal searching system" was invented by Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Belinda Luna Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.), Viviana Caso Corella (San Francisco), Christopher James Kelley (Orinda, Calif.), Jessica Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Pendar Yousefi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dounia Berrada (Saratoga, Calif.), Sundeep Vaddadi (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kai Yu (San Francisco), Balint Miklos (Zurich, Switzerland), Severin Heiniger (Zurich, Switzerland) and Louis Wang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal search system is described. The ...