ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,563, issued on June 10.

"Automatic audio editor software for interviews and recorded speech" was invented by Kenneth O'Reilly (Grover Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for audio processing are described. The system may include a display; a user input device; an audio communications terminal; a recording medium; a tagging system for tagging each of the messages recorded on the recording medium as a function of a question with which each of the messages recorded on the recording medium is associated; and a processor comprising code for: initiating one of the questions of the plurality of questions; displa...