ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,779, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for voice synthesis based on brain waves during imagined speech" was invented by Seong Whan Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Young Eun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seo Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Soo Won Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Sang Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Byung Kwan Ko (Donghae-si, South Korea), Ji Won Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Sun Lee (Changwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for synthesizing the voice based on brai...