US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Recognizing polling questions from a conference call discussion" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,477, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Recognizing polling questions from a conference call discussion" was invented by Emily Burd (New York) and Akshat Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data indicating one or more verbal phrases provided by one or more participants during a conference call is fed as input to a machine learning model. One or more outputs of the machine learning model are obtained. A polling question for polling at least a portion of the participants is extracted from the one or more outputs of the machine learning model. The polling question is based on one or...