ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,353, issued on April 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"System for enhancing speech understanding with effective and efficient integration of automated speech recognition error correction, out-of-domain detection, and/or domain classification" was invented by Zhengyu Zhou (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein are related to a new speech understanding system for domain-specific voice interaction. The systems and methods described herein combine the automatic correction of an automatic speech recognition errors with a natural language understanding model in a way that opt...