ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,143, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Neural coding for redundant audio information transmission" was invented by Jean-Marc Valin (Montreal), Jan Buethe (Munich) and Ahmed Mustafa (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural coding techniques may be implemented for transmission of redundant audio data. An encoding technique is implemented that uses forward encoding along with an initial state to include multiple audio frames from audio data represented as latent vectors in a network packet transmitted to a recipient. The recipient can then use backward decoding and the initial state ...