US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Streaming punctuation for long-form dictation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,490, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Streaming punctuation for long-form dictation" was invented by Piyush Behre (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sharman W Tan (Fremont, Calif.), Shuangyu Chang (Davis, Calif.), Padma Varadharajan (San Jose, Calif.), Sayan Dev Pathak (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ravikant Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems generate segments of spoken language utterances based on different sets of segmentation boundaries. The systems are also configured to generate one or more formatted segments by assigning a punctuation tags at segmentation boundarie...