US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Sept. 22 for "Machine learning model-based acoustic signal-to-text translation" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,704, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Machine learning model-based acoustic signal-to-text translation" was invented by David MacLean (Orlando, Fla.) and Erika Varis Doggett (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor and a memory storing software code and a machine learning (ML) model. The processor executes the software code to receive data including a sequence of acoustic signals or a corresponding spectrogram and an identifier of a source of the acoustic signals, translate, using the ML model, the acoustic signals or the spectrogram to one or more words...