US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 27 for "Enabling natural conversations with soft endpointing for an automated assistant" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,316, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enabling natural conversations with soft endpointing for an automated assistant" was invented by Jaclyn Konzelmann (Mountain View, Calif.), Trevor Strohman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Bloom (Maplewood, N.J.), Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Joseph Smarr (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of a dialog session between a user and an automated assistant, implementations can process, using a streaming ASR model, a stream of audio data that captures a portion of a spoken utterance to generate ASR output, process, using an NLU mode...