ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,587, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Visual speech recognition for digital videos utilizing generative adversarial learning" was invented by Yaman Kumar (New Delhi) and Balaji Krishnamurthy (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that recognize speech from a digital video utilizing an unsupervised machine learning model, such as a generative adversarial neural network (GAN) model. In one or more implementations, the disclosed systems utilize an image encoder to generate self-sup...