ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,302, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using hierarchical mixture-of-experts language models with microphone fidelity routing" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to leveraging a generative model to process a transcript of user speech and a spectrogram that reflects audible features of audio data capturing the user speech, to generate a response. The generative model can include a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) subnetwork and a gating subnetwork. The MoE subnetwork can include multiple expert models trained (e.g., fine-tuned) respectively...