ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,512, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TRANSTRON INC. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Echo suppression device, echo suppression method, and echo suppression program" was invented by Yuki Satomi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Even when a speech is small, the speech is allowed to be detected and an echo is allowed to be appropriately suppressed. Whenever a sample point of a reception signal transmitted through a receiving signal path that transmits a signal to a speaker is acquired, an optimal mask is sequentially generated or selected from base masks as one or a plurality of masks generated based on a learning signal based on a ...