ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,412, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Caching scheme for voice recognition engines" was invented by Rui Min (Vienna, Va.) and Hongcheng Wang (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache associated with a voice recognition engine may be configured to receive an audio file corresponding to a voice query. The voice query may be received by the voice recognition engine from a user device in response to receipt of the voice query by the user device at the user device. The cache may be configured to determine an audio fingerprint based on the audio file and to determine whether...