ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,607, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient streaming non-recurrent on-device end-to-end model" was invented by Tara Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Arun Narayanan (Milpitas, Calif.), Rami Botros (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanzhang He (Mountain View, Calif.), Ehsan Variani (Mountain View, Calif.), Cyril Allauzen (Mountain View, Calif.), David Rybach (Munich), Ruoming Pang (New York) and Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ASR model includes a first encoder configured to receive a sequence of acoustic frames and generate a first higher order feature representat...