ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,459, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Speech recognition system, acoustic processing method, and non-temporary computer-readable medium" was invented by Yui Sudo (Wako, Japan), Kazuhiro Nakadai (Wako, Japan) and Muhammad Shakeel (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The speech recognition that is disclosed analyzes an acoustic feature for each subframe of an audio signal; provides a first model configured to determine a hidden state for each frame consisting of multiple subframes on the basis of the acoustic feature; provides a second model configured to determine a hidden state for each frame c...