ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,910, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for virtual meeting speaker separation" was invented by Prashant Kukde (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sushant Shivram Hiray (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented machine learning method for improving speaker separation is provided. The method comprises processing audio data to generate prepared audio data and determining feature data and speaker data from the prepared audio data through a clustering iteration to generate an audio file. The method further comprises re-segmenting the audio file to generate a speake...