ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,224, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cordio Medical Ltd. (Or-Yehuda, Israel).

"Analyzing speech using speech-sample alignment and segmentation based on acoustic features" was invented by Raziel Haimi-Cohen (Springfield, N.J.), Itai Katsir (Shaar Efraim, Israel) and Ilan D. Shallom (Gedera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes mapping, by a processor, a test speech sample, which was produced by a subject while a physiological state of the subject was unknown, to a reference speech sample, which was produced in a known physiological state. The method further includes, based on the mapping, computing a distance betwe...