ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,588, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Modulate Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"System and method for creating timbres" was invented by William Carter Huffman (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael Pappas (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of building a new voice having a new timbre using a timbre vector space includes receiving timbre data filtered using a temporal receptive field. The timbre data is mapped in the timbre vector space. The timbre data is related to a plurality of different voices. Each of the plurality of different voices has respective timbre data in the timbre vector space. The method builds the new tim...