ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,827, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Town of Mount Royal, Canada).

"Time-domain superwideband bandwidth expansion for cross-talk scenarios" was invented by Vladimir Malenovsky (Brno, Czech Republic) and Milan Jelinek (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for time-domain bandwidth expansion of an excitation signal during decoding of a cross-talk sound signal, comprises decoding a high-band mixing factor received in a bitstream, and mixing a low-band excitation signal and a random noise excitation signal using the high-band mixing factor to produce the time-domain expanded excitation signal. A m...