ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,181, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Signal processing device, signal processing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing signal processing program" was invented by Moe Takada (Osaka, Japan) and Shinichi Yuzuriha (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing device includes: a mixed feature amount conversion part that converts a mixed acoustic signal including a plurality of acoustic signals into a mixed feature amount; a mask estimation part that estimates a plurality of masks based on the mixed feature amou...