US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "System and method for watermarking audio data for automated speech recognition (ASR) systems" (American, British, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,866, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for watermarking audio data for automated speech recognition (ASR) systems" was invented by Patrick Aubrey Naylor (Reading, Great Britain), Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.), William Francis Ganong III (Brookline, Mass.), Uwe Helmut Jost (Groton, Mass.) and Ljubomir Milanovic (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing audio information associated with a speech processing system and encoding a watermark in a non-disruptive portion of the audio infor...