US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Aug. 25 for "Inference-time control of transformers for audio generation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,789, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Inference-time control of transformers for audio generation" was invented by Gordon Wichern (Cambridge, Mass.), Junghyun Koo (Cambridge, Mass.), Francois G Germain (Quincy, Mass.), Sameer Khurana (Brookline, Mass.) and Jonathan Le Roux (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system for synthesizing audio sounds having a desired audio trait executes an autoregressive generative audio transformer trained for generating the audio by processing inputs with multiple layers employing multi-head attention, and uses d...