US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on July 15 for "Tool for assisting people with speech disorder" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,951, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Tool for assisting people with speech disorder" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various tools are disclosed for providing assistive or augmentative means to enhance the fluency and accuracy of persons having speech disabilities. These technologies may automatically ascertain and dynamically improve the accuracy with which automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems recognize utterances of persons having impaired speech conditions. In an embodiment, digitized audio information about a speaker's utterance is proc...