ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,991, issued on May 27, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC.

"Method and system for controlling a graphical user interface by telephone" was invented by Kamyar Mohajer (Mississauga, Canada), Keyvan Mohajer (Los Gatos, Calif.), James Hom (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Evelyn Jiang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling a GUI on a user's network-connected device, the control being provided by a telephone call between the user and a speech recognition and speech synthesis system. An example of a restaurant ordering system is provided. The user calls a phone number and is guided through a verbal or...