ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,426, issued on March 3, was assigned to DTS Inc. (Calabasas, Calif.).

"Machine learning-based key generation for key-guided audio signal transformation" was invented by Zoran Fejzo (Calabasas, Calif.), Antonius Kalker (Calabasas, Calif.) and Atti Venkatraman (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprise: receiving input audio and target audio having a target audio characteristic; using a first neural network, trained to generate key parameters that represent the target audio characteristic based on one or more of the target audio and the input audio, generating the key parameters; and configuring a second neural...