US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 19 for "Background audio identification for query disambiguation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,496, issued on May 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Background audio identification for query disambiguation" was invented by Jason Sanders (New York), John J. Lee (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Gabriel Taubman (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to techniques for providing context-dependent search results. The techniques can include receiving a query and background audio. The techniques can also include identifying the background audio, establishing concepts related to the background audio and obtaining terms related to the concepts related to the background audio. The technique...