ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,913, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-rate end-to-end neural audio upsampler" was invented by Sivanand Achanta (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter Kroon (Green Brook, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes aspects of an end-to-end neural audio upsampler and bandwidth extender. In some aspects, the end-to-end neural audio upsampler and bandwidth extender is configured to receive an input signal having a first bandwidth and generate, using a first neural network model and in a time domain, a feature vector based on the input signal. The end-to-end neural audio upsampler a...