US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Remote concurrent assessment of functional mobility and working memory" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,978, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Remote concurrent assessment of functional mobility and working memory" was invented by Bo Wen (New York), Erhan Bilal (Westport, Conn.) and Jenna Reinen (Rye Brook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for testing functional mobility and memory. Information is about a participant to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine and then instructions are provided to the participant to memorize a random set of steps. The participant is then asked to recall the random set of instruc...