ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,869, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Sound synthesis method, sound synthesis apparatus, and recording medium storing instructions to perform sound synthesis method" was invented by Suk Han Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Valero Puche (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sound synthesis apparatus. The apparatus comprises a transceiver configured to obtain a plurality of sound samples; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: preprocess each sound sample to convert each sound sample into a spectrogram...