ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,874, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"False suggestion detection for user-provided content" was invented by Dirk Padfield (Seattle), Noah Murad (Vancouver, Canada), Edward Lo (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Bryan Huh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated speech recognition (ASR) transcript of at least a portion of a media content is obtained from an ASR tool. Suggested words are received for corrected words of the ASR transcript of the media content. Features are obtained using at least the suggested words or the corrected words. The features include features relating to sound ...