ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,302, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Custom display post processing in speech recognition" was invented by Wei Liu (Beijing), Padma Varadharajan (San Jose, Calif.), Piyush Behre (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nicholas Kibre (Redwood City, Calif.), Edward C. Lin (Beijing), Shuangyu Chang (Davis, Calif.), Che Zhao (Beijing), Khuram Shahid (Woodinville, Wash.) and Heiko Willy Rahmel (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for custom display post processing (DPP) in speech recognition (SR) use a customized multi-stage DPP pipeline that transforms a stream of SR tokens fro...