ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,874, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sorenson IP Holdings LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Training speech recognition systems using word sequences" was invented by David Thomson (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a text string that is a transcription of audio data and selecting a sequence of words from the text string as a first word sequence. The method may further include encrypting the first word sequence and comparing the encrypted first word sequence to multiple encrypted word sequences. Each of the multiple encrypted word sequences may be associated with a corresponding one of multiple coun...