US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Adaptive enhancement of audio or video signals" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,582, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adaptive enhancement of audio or video signals" was invented by Ross G. Cutler (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Harishchandra Dubey (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Vishak Gopal (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to distributed teleconferencing. Some implementations can employ adaptive audio or video enhancement to address scenarios where audio enhancement can tend to remove desirable sounds. For instance, adaptive audio enhancement can involve detecting the presence of a sound, such as clapping, and modifying audio enhancement so...