ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,147, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Speech coding method and apparatus, speech decoding method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Junbin Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a speech coding method performed by a computer device. The method includes: obtaining initial frequency bandwidth feature information corresponding to a speech signal; performing feature compression on initial feature information corresponding to a second band in the initial frequency bandwidth feature information to obtai...