ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,039, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Multi-band synchronized neural vocoder" was invented by Chengzhu Yu (Bellevue, Wash.), Meng Yu (Bellevue, Wash.), Heng Lu (Sammamish, Wash.) and Dong Yu (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method include receiving an input audio signal to be processed by a multi-band synchronized neural vocoder. The input audio signal is separated into a plurality of frequency bands. A plurality of audio signals corresponding to the plurality of frequency bands is obtained. Each of the audio signals is downsampled, and processed by the multi...