US Patent Issued to Digital Voice Systems on Nov. 4 for "Bit error correction in digital speech" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,814, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Digital Voice Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Bit error correction in digital speech" was invented by Thomas Clark (Westford, Mass.) and John C. Hardwick (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method of decoding a digital speech signal, a speech decoder, a handset or mobile radio, and a base station or console. The method includes receiving a voice bit stream including at least one frame of bits that includes block codes, determining least confident bits in a first block code, generating candidates for the first block code based on the least confident bits, deter...