ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,996, issued on June 23, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Short-cycle frequency detector" was invented by Itamar Tamir (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ittai Barkai (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory and processor. The memory is configured to store a machine learning (ML) model that is trained to estimate values of frequencies added (FA) in sparse input signals that have been derived from respective input audio signals, the sparse input signals being indicative of one or more FA in the corresponding input audio signals. The processor is configured to (i) receive an input audio...