ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,390, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Flickering reduction with partial hypothesis re-ranking for streaming ASR" was invented by Antoine Jean Bruguier (Milpitas, Calif.), David Qiu (Fremont, Calif.), Yanzhang He (Mountain View, Calif.) and Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes processing, using a speech recognizer, a first portion of audio data to generate a first lattice, and generating a first partial transcription for an utterance based on the first lattice. The method includes processing, using the recognizer, a second portion of the data to gene...