US Patent Issued to ASAPP on Nov. 4 for "Contextual feature vectors for processing speech" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,795, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ASAPP INC. (New York).

"Contextual feature vectors for processing speech" was invented by Felix Wu (Ithaca, N.Y.), Kwangyoun Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jing Pan (San Jose, Calif.), Kyu Jeong Han (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kilian Quirin Weinberger (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Yoav Artzi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For any application that processes speech, improving the quality of the feature vectors may improve the quality of the speech application. The quality of feature vectors may be improved by modifying a neural network architecture for computing feature vectors to allocate computational resou...