US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Transforming voice signals to compensate for effects from a facial covering" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,960, issued on July 15, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transforming voice signals to compensate for effects from a facial covering" was invented by Eric Y. Chen (Irvine, Calif.), Shamim S. Pirzada (San Jose, Calif.) and Cullen Frishman Jennings (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example embodiment, audio characteristics of audio signals are adjusted by a first machine learning model to reduce effects of a facial covering and produce adjusted audio signals. The audio signals correspond to resulting voice signals produced from the facial covering affecting original voice signals. Speech c...