ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,870, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Guided data selection for masked speech modeling based on an average score assigned to encoded representations of an utterance" was invented by Andrew Rosenberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Mt. Kisco, N.Y.), Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Murali Karthick Baskar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of guided data selection for masked speech modeling includes obtaining a sequence of encoded representations corresponding to an utterance. For each respective encoded representation, the method includes processing the resp...