ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,016, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for determining speech presence probability, speech enhancement methods and systems, and headphones" was invented by Le Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Chengqian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and system for determining a speech presence probability, a speech enhancement method and system, and a headphone. The speech presence probability and a speech absence probability in an iteration operation may be corrected by c...