ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,585, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Hybrid AHS: a hybrid of kalman filter and deep learning for acoustic howling suppression" was invented by Hao Zhang (Columbus, Ohio), Meng Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium for hybrid acoustic howling suppression based on a frequency filter model and a deep neural network are provided. The method may include receiving a speech signal, the speech signal including target speech, feedback, and noise, and inputting the speech signal into a trained hybrid ...