ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,382, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc..

"Method and system to modify speech impaired messages utilizing neural network audio filters" was invented by Rafael Rodrigues Machado (Sorocaba, Brazil), Jampierre Vieira Rocha (Turmalina, Brazil) and Lucas Victor Silva Pereira (Sorocaba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method, system and computer program product are provided that implement a neural network (NN) audio filter. The method, system and computer program product obtain an electronic audio signal comprising a speech impaired message and apply the audio signal to the NN audio f...