US Patent Issued to CERENCE OPERATING on Jan. 20 for "Contextual utterance resolution in multimodal systems" (Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,057, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY (Burlington, Mass.).

"Contextual utterance resolution in multimodal systems" was invented by Slawek Jarosz (Montreal), Patrick Langer (Ulm, Germany), Christian Ardelean (Montreal), Mohammad Mehdi Moniri (Aachen, Germany) and Cassandra Lee (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of responding to a vocal utterance may include capturing and converting the utterance to word(s) using a language processing method, such as natural language processing. The context of the utterance and of the system, which may include multimodal inputs, may be used to deter...