ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,577, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Weighted finite state transducer frameworks for conversational AI systems and applications" was invented by Aleksandr Laptev (Yerevan, Armenia), Vladimir Bataev (Yerevan, Armenia), Igor Gitman (Redmond, Wash.) and Boris Ginsburg (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for a machine learning system to train a machine learning model to output a penalty-free emission when processing an auditory input. For example, as the system generates paths through a probability lattice, one or more paths may include a penalty-free emiss...