ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,576, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Updating and searching a repository having audio files including pronunciations of names of users in computer rendered content" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Roger Martin Weaver (Austin, Texas) and Yang Liang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a computer program product, system, and method for updating and searching a repository having audio files including pronunciations of names of users in computer rendered content. A repository includes user name pronunciation information. User name pronunciation...