US Patent Issued to SRI International on April 22 for "VPA with integrated object recognition and facial expression recognition" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,606, issued on April 22, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"VPA with integrated object recognition and facial expression recognition" was invented by Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Amir Tamrakar (Philadelphia), Girish Acharya (Redwood City, Calif.), William Mark (San Mateo, Calif.), Greg Ho (South Brunswick, N.J.), Jihua Huang (Philadelphia), David Salter (Bensalem, Pa.), Edgar Kalns (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Wessel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Min Yin (San Jose, Calif.), James Carpenter (Mountain View, Calif.), Brent Mombourquette (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kenneth Nitz (Redwood City, Calif.), Elizabeth Shriberg (Berkeley, Calif.), Eric Law (Hayward, Calif.),...