ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,997, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hewlet-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Audio signal quality scores" was invented by Edward Etayo (Spring, Texas), Hui Leng Lim (Spring, Texas) and Peter Siyuan Zhang (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display device, an audio input device to receive an audio signal, and a processor coupled to the audio input device and the display device. The processor is to detect discrete audio events in the audio signal, calculate a quality score for the audio signal, the quality score based on a running average over a time period, wherein the running a...