ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,923, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Transforming text data into acoustic feature" was invented by Shilun Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concealed text feature corresponding to a text data block of a plurality of text data blocks included in the text data and at least one concealed text feature corresponding to at least one text data block subsequent to the text data block are generated. A coarse fusion is performed on (i) the concealed text feature corresponding to the text data block and (ii) the at least one concealed text feature corresponding to the at le...