ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,109, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for processing audio data, device, storage medium" was invented by Qiunan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Fei Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Hao Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for noise reduction and echo cancellation includes obtaining original audio data, the original audio data including pure speech audio data and noise audio data, generating simulated noisy data based on the pure speech audio data and the noise audio data, and generating target audio data based on the simulated noisy data, the target aud...