US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Dec. 23 for "Responding to requests for information and other verbal utterances in a healthcare facility" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,844, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Responding to requests for information and other verbal utterances in a healthcare facility" was invented by Todd Bechtel (Overland Park, Kan.), Chad Hays (Overland Park, Kan.) and Amanda Sleightholm (Kansas City, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are provided for responding to requests received from users in a healthcare facility, and for generating alerts based upon criticality detected in received verbal utterances. A personal assistant device (PAD) may receive a verbal request for information. The identity of the re...