US Patent Issued to Google on July 14 for "Key phrase spotting" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,898, issued on July 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Key phrase spotting" was invented by Wei Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kanury Kanishka Rao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yanzhang He (Mountain View, Calif.), Ian C. McGraw (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Anton Bakhtin (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting utterances of a key phrase in an audio signal. One of the methods includes receiving, by a key phrase spotting system, an audio signal encoding one or more utter...