US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus for improving intelligibility of speech and audibility of warning sounds in noise" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,834, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for improving intelligibility of speech and audibility of warning sounds in noise" was invented by Anthony John Brammer (Ontario, Canada) and Insoo Kim (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving intelligibility of speech and/or warning sounds generated in a noisy environment including receiving an audio signal from the noisy environment, segmenting the audio signal into a plurality of frequency bandwidths to provide a plurality of temporal bandwidth limited signals, and providing each temporal bandwidth...