ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,226, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Latency reduction for multi-stage speech recognition" was invented by Uday Reddy Thummaluri (Nalgonda, India), Prapulla Vuppu (Secunderabad, India), Sachin Raghunath Abdagire (San Diego) and Ritesh Garg (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing one or more audio samples. For example, a process can include receiving one or more audio samples in a first audio frame and determining, using a first keyword detection model, a first keyword detection score for the first audio frame. One or more audio samples can be r...