ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,853, issued on March 25, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Speech processing method and apparatus" was invented by Yinping Zhang (Beijing), Chenyu Zhang (Beijing) and Lili Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech processing method includes obtaining first speech information from a user, determining one or more similar speech segments in the first speech information and deleting one or more similar frames each of the one or more similar speech segments to obtain second speech information, and analyzing the second speech information to determine a user intent corresponding to the first speech information. A...