US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 1 for "Unsupervised federated learning of machine learning model layers" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,419, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unsupervised federated learning of machine learning model layers" was invented by Francoise Beaufays (Mountain View, Calif.), Khe Chai Sim (Dublin, Calif.) and Johan Schalkwyk (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed herein are directed to unsupervised federated training of global machine learning ("ML") model layers that, after the federated training, can be combined with additional layer(s), thereby resulting in a combined ML model. Processor(s) can: detect audio data that captures a spoken utterance of a user of a client dev...