ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,756, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sanas.ai Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for real-time accent mimicking" was invented by Ankita Jha (Bangalore, India), Lukas Pfeifenberger (Salzburg, Austria), Piotr Dura (Warsaw, Poland), David Braude (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Alvaro Escudero (San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain), Shawn Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Maxim Serebryakov (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sharath Kashava Narayana (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to methods, speech processing systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for real-time accent mimicking. In ...