ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,025, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Contextual transcription augmentation methods and systems" was invented by Hariharan Saptharishi (Madurai, India), Gobinathan Baladhandapani (Madurai, India), Raghupathy P (Bangalore, India) and Sivakumar Kanagarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription. One method involves identifying an operational objective for an audio communication with respect to the vehicle, determining an expected clearance communication for the v...