ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,758, issued on Sept. 16.

"Automated dictation correction technology" was invented by Tyler Joseph Monaldo (Odenton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated dictation correction technology, in which voice input of one or more sentences spoken by a user is captured by a microphone and converted to text data representing the one or more sentences. The text data is displayed on a user interface and a text correction of a first portion of the text data is entered by the user. Based on receipt of the text correction of the first portion of the text data, the text data is analyzed to assess similarity of the first portion of the text ...