ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,911, issued on July 14, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Automatic detection and attenuation of speech-articulation noise events" was invented by Chunghsin Yeh (Barcelona, Spain), Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain) and Mark David De Burgh (Mount Colah, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method of performing automatic audio enhancement on an input audio signal including at least one speech-articulation noise event. The method comprises: segmenting the input audio signal into a number of audio frames; obtaining at least one feature parameter from the audio frames; and determining, based at least in...