ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,770, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unified cascaded encoder ASR model for dynamic model sizes" was invented by Shaojin Ding (Mountain View, Calif.), Yangzhang He (Mountain View, Calif.), Xin Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Weiran Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert David (Mountain View, Calif.), Rina Panigrahy (Mountain View, Calif.), Rami Botros (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiao Liang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ian Mcgraw (Mountain View, Calif.), Ding Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dongseong Hwang (Mountain View, Calif.)....