ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,204, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Scheduling neural inference tasks" was invented by Stanislaw Ignacy Pasko (Zawonia, Poland) and Alexander Ivchenko (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some speech processing systems may handle some commands on-device rather than sending the audio data to a second device or system for processing. The first device may have basic speech processing capabilities sufficient for handling basic language and/or commands, while the second device (e.g., an edge device and/or a remote system) may call on additional language models, entity libraries, skill compo...