US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Dec. 9 for "Flexible text-to-speech for screen readers" (Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,191, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Flexible text-to-speech for screen readers" was invented by Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.), Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia) and Noel Lyles (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may receive a set of words, for conversion to speech, including a plurality of subsets of the set of words, where each subset of the plurality of subsets is associated with one or more corresponding formatting properties. The user device may identify, within the set of words, a first su...