ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,916, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Context-based detection of end-point of utterance" was invented by Paras Surendra Doshi (Mumbai, India), Ayush Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Shri Prakash (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting an end-point of user's voice command or utterance with high accuracy is critical in automatic speech recognition (ASR)-based human machine interface. If an ASR system incorrectly detects an end-point of utterance and transmits this incomplete sentence to other processing blocks for further processing, it is likely the processed result would lead to incorrect interpre...