ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,401, issued on March 3, was assigned to SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Evaluating reliability of audio data for use in speech processing" was invented by Sarah Bakst (San Francisco), Aaron Lawson (Sutter Creek, Calif.), Christopher L. Cobo-Kroenke (San Francisco) and Allen Stauffer (Queensbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing system includes a storage device configured to store a machine learning model trained with audio feature values to determine a reliability of an audio segment for performing speech processing; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: receive...