ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,762, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Speech-to-text voice visualization" was invented by Ju Ling Liu (Beijing), Xiang Wei Li (Beijing), Dong Chen (Beijing), Ye Chuan Wang (Beijing), Ting Ting Zhan (Beijing), Wei Yan (Beijing) and Yu An (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating personalized audio data is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes receiving user input data, wherein the user input data is at least one of text or audio. The computer-implemented method further includes segmenting the user input data into a set o...