ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,972, issued on March 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Method and apparatus for intelligent voice recognition" was invented by Navdeep Jain (Philadelphia) and Hongcheng Wang (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for recognizing, based on a voice input, a user and/or a voice command. An algorithm is described herein that processes data associated with a voice input. The data may indicate characteristics of the voice such as a gender, an age, or accent associated with the voice and other metadata. For example, the system may process the data and determine t...