ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,945, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to HITHINK ROYALFLUSH INFORMATION NETWORK Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Systems and methods for multiple speaker speech recognition" was invented by Jinlong Wang (Hangzhou, China), Xinkang Xu (Hangzhou, China) and Xinhui Hu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech recognition method is provided. The method may include: obtaining speech data and a speech recognition result of the speech data, the speech data including speech of a plurality of speakers, and the speech recognition result including a plurality of words; determining speaking time of each of the plurality of speakers by p...