US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 18 for "Collaborative ranking of interpretations of spoken utterances" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,886, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Collaborative ranking of interpretations of spoken utterances" was invented by Akshay Goel (Seattle), Nitin Khandelwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard Park (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian Chatham (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jonathan Eccles (San Francisco), David Sanchez (Burlingame, Calif.) and Dmytro Lapchuk (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein are directed to enabling collaborative ranking of interpretations of spoken utterances based on data that is available to an automated assistant and third-party agent(s), respect...