ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,153, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CRESTA INTELLIGENCE INC. (San Francisco).

"Contemporaneous machine-learning analysis of audio streams" was invented by Tianlin Shi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Kenneth George Oetzel (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described techniques select portions of an audio stream for transmission to a trained machine learning application, which generates response recommendations in real-time. This real-time response is facilitated by the system identifying, selecting and transmitting those portions of the audio stream likely to be most relevant to the conversation. Portions of an audio stream ...