ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,860, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for secure transcription generation" was invented by William F. Ganong III (Brookline, Mass.), Uwe Helmut Jost (Groton, Mass.) and Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be generated via an automated speech recognition (ASR) system. One or more splitting points between one or more sensitive content portions and one or more non-sensitive content portions...