ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,480, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Speech enhancement methods and processing circuits performing speech enhancement methods" was invented by Jie Liu (Xiamen, China), Fei-Yang Tong (Xiamen, China) and Cheng-Wei Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing circuit performing a speech enhancement method processes a to-be-processed signal to generate a target signal and executes a plurality of program codes or program instructions to perform the following steps: performing Fourier transform on the to-be-processed signal to generate a spectral signal of the to-be-processed si...