ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,827, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intelligent noise suppression for audio signals within a communication platform" was invented by Jiachuan Deng (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiyong Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chuanfei Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Xiuyu Xu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide users of a communication platform with intelligent, real-time noise suppression for audio signals broadcasted in a communication session. The system receives an input audio signal from an audio capture device; processes the input audio signal to provide a second ver...