ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,080, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Neural network-based signal processing apparatus, neural network-based signal processing method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Qiongqiong Wang (Tokyo), Takafumi Koshinaka (Tokyo) and Kong Aik Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spoofing detection apparatus 100 includes a multi-channel spectrogram creation unit 10 and an evaluation unit 40. The multi-channel spectrogram creation unit 10 extracts different type of spectrograms from speech data and integrates the different type of spectrograms to create a multi-channel spectrogram. The evaluation...