US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Textual knowledge transfer for improved speech recognition and understanding" (New York, Connecticut, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,405, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Textual knowledge transfer for improved speech recognition and understanding" was invented by Samuel Thomas (White Plains, N.Y.), Vishal Sunder (Columbus, Ohio), Hong-Kwang Kuo (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Brian E. D. Kingsbury (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Eric Fosler-Lussier (Columbus, Ohio) and George Andrei Saon (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate fine-grained textual knowledge transfer to improve spe...