ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,589, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Local and cloud speech recognition" was invented by Anthony John Wood (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Stern (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Gregory Mack Garner (Springdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing the performance of speech recognition among a remote control device and a voice platform in the cloud. In some embodiments, the remote control device operates to receive a voice input from a...