US Patent Issued to Cascade Reading on March 18 for "Acoustic-based linguistically-driven automated text formatting" (Minnesota, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,870, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cascade Reading Inc. (Edina, Minn.).

"Acoustic-based linguistically-driven automated text formatting" was invented by Julie A. Van Dyke (New Haven, Conn.), Michael Gorman (Edina, Minn.) and Mark Lacek (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for acoustic-based linguistically-driven automated text formatting of acoustic input are described herein. An audio sample may be obtained that includes multiple words from human speech. The audio sample may be processed to determine a linguistic relationship of the words from the acoustic properties of the words. Based on the de...