ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,481, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating audio using auto-regressive generative neural networks" was invented by Neil Zeghidour (Paris), David Grangier (Mountain View, Calif.), Marco Tagliasacchi (Ruvigliana, Switzerland), Raphael Marinier (Paris), Olivier Teboul (Paris) and Zalan Borsos (Zurich).

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 a prediction of an audio signal. One of the methods includes receiving a request to generate an audio signal; obtaining a semantic representation of the ...