ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,579, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method and apparatus for processing of audio using a neural network" was invented by Mark S. Vinton (Alameda, Calif.), Cong Zhou (Foster City, Calif.), Roy M. Fejgin (San Francisco) and Grant A. Davidson (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method of processing an audio signal using a neural network or using a first and a second neural network. Described is further a method of training said neural network or of jointly training a set of said first and said second neural network. Moreover, described is a met...