ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,788, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Machine learning (ML) algorithm for sound classification and cancellation" was invented by Sri Vatsava Ganesh Kumar Vempati (Nellore, India), Hitesh Venkata Rachakonda (Hyderabad, India), Vasavi Kandikattu (Nellore, India) and Sridhar Rao Nune (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for audio signal processing that support noise cancellation. In a first aspect, a method of signal processing includes determining a location of the apparatus; receiving an audio signal including sounds at the location of the...