ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,748, issued on March 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Generating encoded text based on spoken utterances using machine learning systems and methods" was invented by Peter P. Myron (New Braunfels, Texas) and Michael Mitchell (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating encoded text representations of spoken utterances are disclosed. Audio data is received for a spoken utterance and analyzed to identify a nonverbal characteristic, such as a sentiment, a speaking rate, or a volume. An encoded text representation of the spoken utterance is generated, comprising a text tran...