US Patent Issued to Google on March 4 for "Privacy-aware meeting room transcription from audio-visual stream" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,648, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy-aware meeting room transcription from audio-visual stream" was invented by Oliver Siohan (Mountain View, Calif.), Takaki Makino (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard Rose (Mountain View, Calif.), Otavio Braga (Mountain View, Calif.), Hank Liao (New York) and Basilio Garcia Castillo (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a privacy-aware transcription includes receiving audio-visual signal including audio data and image data for a speech environment and a privacy request from a participant in the speech environment where the priv...