ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,371, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"On-device grammar checking" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Sebastian Millius (Zurich), Qi Wang (Beijing), Yunpeng Li (Zurich, Switzerland), Shankar Kumar (New York), Lukas Zilka (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Simon Tong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Martin Sundermeyer (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may receive inputted text and perform, using one or more neural networks, on-device grammar checking of a sequence of words in the inputted text, including determining, using the one or more neural networks, ...