ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,087, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio datasets generation for videoconferencing" was invented by Yuhui Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Qiang Gao (Charlotte, N.C.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Xian Tong (Hangzhou, China) and Ye Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for active speaker detection for videoconferencing are provided. For example, an audio recording system can record a set of raw audio signals. The set of raw audio signals include audio signals recorded by a set of microphones at different distances from an audio source with different ori...