ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,610, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for improved automatic speech recognition systems" was invented by Raphael Tang (Washington), Karun Kumar (Hyattsville, Md.), Kendra Chalkley (Portland, Ore.), Liming Zhang (Reston, Va.), Wenyan Li (Arlington, Va.), Pamela Shapiro (Denver), Yajie Mao (Arlington, Va.), Gefei Yang (Annandale, Va.), Jun Ho Shin (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Geoffrey Craig Murray (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selection of training utterances may be carried out in a sample-efficient manner, and the selected training utterances may be ann...