US Patent Issued to Google on March 11 for "Method for detecting and classifying coughs or other non-semantic sounds using audio feature set learned from speech" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,346, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for detecting and classifying coughs or other non-semantic sounds using audio feature set learned from speech" was invented by Jacob Garrison (Seattle), Jacob Scott Peplinski (Chandler, Ariz.) and Joel Shor (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a cough in an audio stream includes a step of performing one or more pre-processing steps on the audio stream to generate an input audio sequence comprising a plurality of time-separated audio segments. An embedding is generated by a self-supervised triplet loss embedding model for each ...