ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,452, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Text data processing method and apparatus" was invented by Nianzu Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Disong Wang (Shenzhen, China), Liqun Deng (Shenzhen, China) and Yang Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to text data processing methods and apparatuses. One example method includes obtaining target text, where a phoneme of the target text includes a first phoneme and a second phoneme that are adjacent to each other. Feature extraction is performed on the first phoneme and the second phoneme to obtain a first...