ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,870, issued on July 22, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time natural language processing and fulfillment" was invented by Jon Grossmann (Cupertino, Calif.), Robert Macrae (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Halstvedt (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Keyvan Mohajer (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of real-time feedback confirmation to solicit a virtual assistant response from an evolving semantic state of at least a portion of an utterance. A user accesses a virtual assistant on an electronic device having the system and/or method configured to capture a command, a question, a...