ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,787, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pheon Inc. (San Francisco).

"Text-to-speech synthesis using generative artificial intelligence models" was invented by Kyrylo Sydorchuk (Kharkov, Ukraine), Ivan Shuhaienko (Kharkov, Ukraine), Elizaveta Perchenko (Vancouver, Canada) and Yurii Astafiev (Kharkov, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for generating human speech audio in a conversation using a trained generative AI model are provided. The method includes receiving a text input representing a portion of the conversation, receiving dialog context associated with the conversation, receiving information representin...