ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,408, issued on May 5, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating audio using neural networks" was invented by Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord (London), Sander Etienne Lea Dieleman (London), Nal Emmerich Kalchbrenner (Amsterdam), Karen Simonyan (London) and Oriol Vinyals (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating an output sequence of audio data that comprises a respective audio sample at each of a plurality of time steps. One of the methods includes, for each of the time steps: providing a current sequ...