US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Nov. 18 for "Machine-learning assisted acoustic echo cancelation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,070, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine-learning assisted acoustic echo cancelation" was invented by Yuhui Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.) and Wei Wang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems provide machine-learning assisted acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). The AEC can be used, as an example, to improve the audio quality for online audio and video conferences. A system according to this disclosure includes a pre-trained, machine-learning, AI model designed to detect, in real time, a unitary voice signal, or a signal repre...