ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,255, issued on May 13, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Synthesizing audio for synchronous communication" was invented by Mahesh Kumar Nandwana (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kiran Bhat (San Francisco) and Morgan McGuire (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first audio stream of a performance associated with a first client device. The method further includes during a time window of the performance, wherein the time window is less than a total time of the performance: generating a synthesized first audio stream that predicts a future of the performance based on aud...