ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,048, issued on June 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for reconstructing voice packets using natural language generation during signal loss" was invented by Saurabh Tahiliani (Noida, India) and Subham Biswas (Thane, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive and convert audio data to text data in real-time, and may detect a network fluctuation that causes missing voice packets. The device may process partial text and context of the text data, with a model, to generate a new phrase, and may generate a response phoneme for the new phrase. The device may util...