ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,904, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Machine learning model that estimates human audio quality assessments" was invented by Sid Shankara Rao (Seattle), Michael Mark Goodwin (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Arvindh Krishnaswamy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Klingbeil (North Haven, Conn.), Karim Helwani (Mountain View, Calif.) and Erfan Soltanmohammadi (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio assessment machine learning model, for example including one or more neural networks, may be trained for human audio quality assessment estimation, wherein the training comprises performing compari...