ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,873, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for personalisation of ASR models" was invented by Umberto Michieli (Staines, Great Britain), Mete Ozay (Staines, Great Britain) and Edward Fish (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present techniques generally relate to a computer-implemented method for personalising automatic speech recognition (ASR) or other general-purpose models using mixed precision (MP) quantization. Each model is personalised on a user device or server to a target memory budget B using user data."

The patent was filed on Jan. 5, 2024, u...