ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,510, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canary Speech Inc. (Provo, Utah).

"Medical assessment based on voice" was invented by Jangwon Kim (Los Angeles), Namhee Kwon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Henry O'Connell (Spanish Fork, Utah), Phillip Walstad (Provo, Utah) and Kevin Shengbin Yang (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to r...