ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,290, issued on May 19, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Domain and user intent specific disambiguation of transcribed speech" was invented by Sanchita Tiwari (Cumming, Ga.), Xiuyang Yu (Unionville, Conn.), Justin Ali Kennedy (Norwell, Mass.) and Dirk Van Dall (Shelter Island, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing platform including processing hardware and a system memory storing software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a transcript of speech by a user, generate a phoneme stream corresponding to the transcript, partition the phoneme stream into w...