ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,203, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ShenZhen SynSense Technology Co. Ltd. (Guongdong, China).

"Divisive normalization method, device, audio feature extractor and a chip" was invented by Huaqiu Zhang (Guangdong, China), Saeid Haghighatshoar (Guangdong, China), Dylan Richard Muir (Guangdong, China), Hao Liu (Guangdong, China), Peng Zhou (Guangdong, China) and Ning Qiao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A divisive normalization method, device, audio feature extractor, and a chip are disclosed. For improving the robustness against variations of the background noise, the proposed per-channel divisive normalization method ...