ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,658, issued on June 16, was assigned to Media Tek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Acoustic echo cancellation system and associated method" was invented by Bozhong Liu (Singapore), Xiaoxi Yu (Singapore), Hantao Huang (Singapore), Chia-Hsin Yang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Li-Wei Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) system includes a loudspeaker interface coupled to a loudspeaker, a microphone interface coupled to a microphone, and a processor executing a model. The model predicts and generates a spectral magnitude mask (SMM) through a neural network according to a first micro...