ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,217, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Error correction in speech recognition" was invented by Issac John Alphonso (San Jose, Calif.), Anastasios Anastasakos (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Levit (San Jose, Calif.) and Nitin Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for speech recognition correction include receiving a voice recognition input from an individual user and using a trained error correction model to add a new alternative result to a results list based on the received voice input processed by a voice recognition system. The error correction...