ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,198, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MediaTek 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: "An 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 is arranged to predict and generate a spectral magnitude mask (SMM) through a neural network according to a ...