ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,959, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Speech enhancement method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Wei Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Yupeng Shi (Shenzhen, China), Meng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shidong Shang (Shenzhen, China) and Zurong Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speech enhancement method includes: determining a glottal parameter corresponding to a target speech frame according to a frequency domain representation of the target speech frame; determining a gain corresponding to the target speech frame according to a gain corresponding to a hist...