US Patent Issued to INVENTVM Semiconductor on March 31 for "Virtual bass enhancement based on source separation" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,194, issued on March 31, was assigned to INVENTVM Semiconductor Srl (Pavia, Italy).

"Virtual bass enhancement based on source separation" was invented by Alessandro Ilic Mezza (Milan), Riccardo Giampiccolo (Cisliano, Italy), Alberto Bernardini (Milan) and Augusto Sarti (Seregno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual bass enhancing device for enhancing a virtual bass of an input audio signal includes a demixer, configured to extract at least one audio channel from the input audio signal, wherein the audio channel corresponds to an acoustic source, or to a group of acoustic sources, of the input audio signal, at least one vir...