ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,497, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Intended query detection using E2E modeling for continued conversation" was invented by Shuo-yiin Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Guru Prakash Arumugam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zelin Wu (Jersey City, N.J.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Bo Li (Fremont, Calif.), Qiao Liang (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam Stambler (Mountain View, Calif.), Shyam Upadhyay (Mountain View, Calif.), Manaal Faruqui (Mountain View, Calif.) and Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, as input to a speech recognition model, audio da...