ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,856, issued on July 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processing of audio data in multi-speaker multi-channel environments" was invented by Taejin Park (San Jose, Calif.), Ante Jukic (Culver City, Calif.), He Huang (Greenville, S.C.), Venkata Naga Krishna Chaitanya Puvvada (San Jose, Calif.), Kunal Dhawan (San Jose, Calif.), Nithin Rao Koluguri (Milpitas, Calif.), Nikolay Karpov (Moscow, Armenia), Aleksandr Laptev (Erevan, Armenia) and Jagadeesh Balam (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that may use machine learning for implementing speaker recogni...