US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 7 for "Statistical provisioning of perceptual audio cues to enhance speech" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,106, issued on July 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Statistical provisioning of perceptual audio cues to enhance speech" was invented by Antje Ihlefeld (Redmond, Wash.) and William Owen Brimijoin II (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for generating spatial audio are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive audio data from a plurality of sources; for each source of the plurality of sources, calculate a pitch similarity for the audio data; for each source of the plurality of sources, calculate an interaural level difference based at least...