ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,396, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VERITONE INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated synthetic voice pipelines" was invented by Chad Edward Steelberg (Newport Beach, Calif.), Ryan Scott Steelberg (Newport Beach, Calif.), Sean Patrick King (Oceanside, Calif.), Corey Denard Hill (Denver) and Christopher Mark Doe (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are example embodiments of systems, method, and devices for generating audio assets. The example method includes receiving an input including at least one of audio, text, video, Java Script Object Notation (JSON), Extensible Markup Language (XML...