US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on April 7 for "Hybrid digital signal processing-artificial intelligence acoustic echo cancellation for virtual conferences" (Singaporean, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,260, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid digital signal processing-artificial intelligence acoustic echo cancellation for virtual conferences" was invented by Jiachuan Deng (Singapore), Cheng Lun Hu (Singapore), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Qiyong Liu (Singapore), Wei Wang (Hefei, China) and Yueguan Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems provide hybrid DSP-AI acoustic echo cancellation for virtual conferences. A digital signal processing (DSP)-based linear acoustic echo cancelation (AEC) can be performed on an input audio signal to filte...