US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Oct. 20 for "Dialect correction and training" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,622, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Dialect correction and training" was invented by Kevin W. Beck (Raleigh, N.C.), Russell S. VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.) and Thorsten Stremlau (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For displaying proactive training, a method monitors user communications between electronic devices. The method trains a dialect database on dialects in a user language. The dialect database is trained to identify speech, pronunciations, stresses, accents, gestures, metaphors, and spellings associated with each dialect. The method anticipates communications to take pla...