ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,583, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Device, system, and method to initiate a communication between communication devices based on audio input" was invented by Behnam Shahbazi (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Amir Khakpour (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system and method to initiate a communication between communication devices based on audio input is provided. A computing device converts audio input from a first communication device into phonetic data corresponding to a target name from the audio input, and selects, using a machine learning algorithm, from names that potentia...