ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,379, issued on April 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Relaxed instance frequency normalization for neural-network-based audio processing" was invented by Byeonggeun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghan Yang (Incheon, South Korea), Hyunsin Park (Gwangmyeong, South Korea), Juntae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Simyung Chang (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for training a neural network to classify audio into one of a plurality of categories and using such a trained neural network. An example method generally includes receiving a data set including a plurality of audio samples. A rela...