ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,614, issued on July 8, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea) and THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Indianapolis).

"Speech coding method and apparatus for performing the same" was invented by Woo-taek Lim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Seung Kwon Beack (Daejeon, South Korea), Inseon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jongmo Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Byeongho Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Minje Kim (Bloomington, Ind.) and Haici Yang (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a speech signal includes predicting a feature vector ...