ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,439, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-task learning for personalized keyword spotting" was invented by Seunghan Yang (Incheon, South Korea), Byeonggeun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Inseop Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Simyung Chang (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing audio data. For example, the systems and techniques can be used for personalized keyword spotting through multi-task learning (PK-MTL). A process can include obtaining an audio sample, generating a representation of a keyword based on the audio sample, and generating a repre...