ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,806, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Machine translation using neural network models" was invented by Zhifeng Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Macduff Richard Hughes (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yonghui Wu (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Schuster (Saratoga, Calif.), Xu Chen (San Francisco), Llion Owen Jones (San Francisco), Niki J. Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), George Foster (Ottawa), Orhan Firat (Mountain View, Calif.), Ankur Bapna (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wolfgang Macherey (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including ...