ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,985, issued on March 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating transcriptions of audio data for presentation at a client device" was invented by Dimitri Kanevsky (Ossining, N.Y.), Sharlene Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan), Artem Dementyev (Newton, Mass.), Sagar Savla (San Francisco) and Vinton Gray Cerf (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating transcriptions of audio data for presentation at a client device are provided. One or more audio streams, provided by one or more audio sources of one or more client devices of a plurality of users, are received by a broadcasting system. Sen...