ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,287, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Routing queries based on carrier phrase registration" was invented by Michael J. Lebeau (New York), John Nicholas Jitkoff (Palo Alto, Calif.) and William J. Byrne (Davis, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving a voice query at a mobile computing device and generating data that represents content of the voice query. The data is provided to a server system. A textual query that has been determined by a speech recognizer at the s...