ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,880, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Deepgram Inc. (San Francisco).

"End-to-end automatic speech recognition with transformer" was invented by Andrew Nathan Seagraves (Houston), Deepak Subburam (Hoboken, N.J.), Adam Joseph Sypniewski (Dexter, Mich.), Scott Ivan Stephenson (Burlingame, Calif.), Jacob Edward Cutter (San Ramon, Calif.), Michael Joseph Sypniewski (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Daniel Lewis Shafer (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) system can be constructed by fusing a first ASR model with a transformer. The input of the transformer is a learned layer generated by the ...