ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,423, issued on March 3, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and methods for upsampling of decompressed speech data using a neural network" was invented by Zhu Li (Overland Park, Kan.), Brian R. Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.) and Paras Maharjan (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for upsampling of decompressed data after lossy compression using a neural network that integrates AI-based techniques to enhance compression quality. It incorporates a novel AI deblocking network composed of convolutional layers for feature extraction and a channel-wise transformer with attention...