US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Method and system of automated question generation for speech assistance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,936, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of automated question generation for speech assistance" was invented by Robert Fernand Gordan (San Francisco) and Amit Srivastava (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating one or more questions relating to a presentation session includes receiving audio data from the presentation session, retrieving a transcript for the audio data, receiving other data relating to the presentation session, providing at least one of the transcript and the other data to a machine-learning (ML) model a...