ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,914, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oeksound Oy (Helsinki).

"Processing resonances in a digital sound signal using sub-band sub-sampling" was invented by Olli Keskinen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to signal processing of music and in particular the removal of unwanted artifacts from a music signal. A method for attenuating resonances in a sound signal which uses sub-sampling of at least one sub-band of the original signal to save computing resources is set out. The method includes at least steps in which an incoming signal block is filtered into at least two different frequency sub-band signals...