US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Suggested queries for transcript search" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,383, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Suggested queries for transcript search" was invented by Adi Miller (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Haim Somech (Herzliya, Israel) and Michael Sterenberg (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for surfacing natural language queries from one or more transcripts. An example method may include converting received audio to text, through automated speech recognition, to form a transcript of the audio, wherein the transcript includes text of the audio and identifications of speakers associated with portions of the text corres...