US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on June 24 for "Health-related information generation and storage" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,820, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Health-related information generation and storage" was invented by John Paul Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detected sound signal may comprise speech or non-verbal sounds, and many non-verbal sounds contain health information. If the speech, or a non-verbal sound containing health information, was produced by an enrolled user, data relating to the sound can be stored in a storage element. A system also comprises a data modification block, for obfuscating received data to provide an obfuscated version of the stored data. The s...