ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,283, issued on April 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Machine learning-based audio codec switching" was invented by Hsin Fu Henry Chiang (Bellevue, Wash.), Yasmin Karimli (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for selectively using a music-capable audio codec on-demand during a communication session. A user equipment (UE) may adaptively transition between using a first audio codec that provides a first audio bandwidth and a second audio codec (e.g., the EVS-FB codec) that provides a second audio bandwidth that is greate...