ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,012, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User selectable noise suppression in a voice communication" was invented by Ravi Teja Gogineni (Hyderabad, India), Deepak Kumar Challa (San Diego), Jeesok Lee (San Diego) and Durga Prasad Reddy Gajjala (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for audio communication includes a memory configured to receive audio data from a user of a voice communication, and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive the audio data for the voice communication, which includes voice data of the user ...