US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 5 for "Dynamic noise and speech removal" (Singaporean, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,908, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic noise and speech removal" was invented by Jiachuan Deng (Singapore), Cheng-Lun Hu (Singapore), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Qiyong Liu (Singapore) and Qi Yang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Online audio and video conference applications can utilize a noise removal module to eliminate unwanted audio from a participant's speech. A noise removal module can rely on differentiating between human speech versus other audio to filter out noise. However, in some conference environments, participant and non-participant human speech ...