ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,310, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Audio signal processing apparatus and audio signal processing method" was invented by Yong Ju Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae-hyoun Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Young Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyeongok Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal processing apparatus and an audio signal processing method are disclosed. The audio signal processing method performed by the audio signal processing apparatus includes determining whether a line of sigh...