ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,709, issued on May 12, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio super resolution" was invented by Yuhui Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Qiyong Liu (Singapore) and Zhengwei Wei (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for audio super resolution. The system receives an audio signal. When the sampling rate of the audio signal is below a sampling rate threshold or the frequency range of the audio signal is below a frequency range threshold, the audio signal is input t...