ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,903, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Neural network training for speech enhancement" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.) and Atabak Pouya (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training neural networks may include receiving a sequence of audio frames, and mapping a first audio frame in the sequence of audio frames to a first output frame based on a neural network. The first output frame may represent a noise-invariant component of the first audio frame. The method may also include determining a first loss value based on differences between the first ou...