ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,005, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Elevating acoustic howling suppression via recursive neural network training" was invented by Hao Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Meng Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to receive an audio signal obtained from a microphone, input the audio signal into a neural-network based AHS model, train the neural-network based AHS model based on input signals which are recursively generated from the audio signal during training...