ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,566, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Lookup-table recurrent language model" was invented by Ronny Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Tara N. Sainath (Jersey City, N.J.), Trevor Strohman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shankar Kumar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance spoken by a user and captured by a user device. The method also includes processing the audio data to determine a candidate transcription that includes a sequence of tokens for the spoken utterance. Tor each token in the sequence...