ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,059, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using metadata for improved transcription search" was invented by Brandon Kevin Roper (Washington, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using metadata to improve identifying desired information within a transcription. The systems and methods including receiving audio data, recognizing terms within the audio data, identifying alternate recognized terms within the audio data, the alternate recognized terms corresponding to the recognized terms within the audio data, generating a transcription ba...