ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,068, issued on June 17, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Detecting corrupted speech in voice-based computer interfaces" was invented by Di Wang (Seattle), Deshen Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Lan Ma (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Shu Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Wenbo Yan (Redmond, Wash.) and Prathap Ramachandra (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches are generally described for corrupted speech detection in voice-based computer interfaces. First input data including first audio data representing a user utterance may be received. First data representing the first audio data may be generated using a first encode...