US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 14 for "Hybrid language models for conversational AI systems and applications" (Armenian, American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,409, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid language models for conversational AI systems and applications" was invented by Vladimir Bataev (Yerevan, Armenia), Roman Korostik (Yerevan, Armenia), Evgenii Shabalin (Moscow), Vitaly Sergeyevich Lavrukhin (Campbell, Calif.) and Boris Ginsburg (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, first textual data may be applied to a first MLM to generate an intermediate speech representation (e.g., a frequency-domain representation), the intermediate audio representation and a second MLM may be used to generate output data indicati...