ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,282, issued on May 19, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Processing method and processing apparatus of sound signal" was invented by Po-Jen Tu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Jia-Ren Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kai-Meng Tzeng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing method and a processing apparatus of sound signal are provided. Extracting a plurality of mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs) from a sound signal to be processed includes: obtaining a power corresponding to a plurality of mel-frequencies of the sound signal to be processed through a plurality of band-pass filters, ...