ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,513, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for replicating background acoustic properties using neural networks" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Tracy, Calif.), James Wellford Fosburgh (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Patrick Aubrey Naylor (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for estimating noise spectrum from a target audio signal segment. An acoustic neural embedding is generated from the target audio signal segment. An augmented audio signal segment is generated with background acoustic properties of...