ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,354, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SOUNDHOUND AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using semantic grammar extensibility for collective artificial intelligence" was invented by Bernard Mont-Reynaud (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher S. Wilson (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Keyvan Mohajer (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Support for natural language expressions is provided by the use of semantic grammars that describe the structure of expressions in that grammar and that construct the meaning of a corresponding natural language expression. A semantic grammar extension mechanism is provided, which allows one semantic grammar...