ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,047, issued on June 17, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"System and method for automatically editing voice signals" was invented by Mark Paxman Warnick (San Antonio), Nathan Lee Post (Rockport, Texas), Joel S. Hartshorn (Port Orchard, Wash.), Christian A. Williams (San Antonio), Will Kerns Maney Jr. (New York City, N.Y.), Ravi Durairaj (San Antonio), Nolan Serrao (Plano, Texas) and Donald Nathaniel Holloway III (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that can automatically and intelligently edit audio signals to correct issues with voices and background noise. Such ...