ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,470, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Speaker-turn-based online speaker diarization with constrained spectral clustering" was invented by Quan Wang (Hoboken, N.J.), Han Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Evan Clark (San Francisco), Ignacio Lopez Moreno (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Hasim Sak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Xia (Mountain View, Calif.), Taral Joglekar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Anshuman Tripathi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an input audio signal that corresponds to utterances spoken by multiple speakers. The method also includes processing the input audio t...