ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,266, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Deep learning based voice extraction and primary-ambience decomposition for stereo to surround upmixing with dialog-enhanced center channel" was invented by Sunil Bharitkar (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.), Ricardo Thaddeus Paez Amaro (Puebla, Mexico), Carlos Tejeda Ocampo (Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico) and Luis Madrid Herrera (Chihuahua, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes determining directional sounds from a content mix using a machine learning unmixing model. The directional s...