ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,850, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Audio processing with neural networks" was invented by Dominik Roblek (Meilen, Switzerland) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for audio processing using neural networks. One of the systems includes multiple neural network layers, wherein the neural network system is configured to receive time domain features of an audio sample and to process the time domain features to generate a neural network output for the audio sample, t...