ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,267, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hyperconnect LLC (Dallas).

"Speech synthesis apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Sang Il Ahn (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Seung Woo Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Ju Han (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Joo Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a speech synthesis method including acquiring second speech data and a target text, acquiring first information includes embedding information corresponding to the second speech data, acquiring second information including embedding information of the second speech data, the ...