US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Detection of cognitive impairment using speech feature distribution" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,828, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detection of cognitive impairment using speech feature distribution" was invented by Kaoru Shinkawa (Hachioji, Japan), Yasunori Yamada (Kawaguchi, Japan) and Masatomo Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for speech feature distribution is provided. The present invention may include receiving two or more speech samples from a user. The present invention may include dividing the two or more speech samples into a a plurality of pause segments. The present invention may incl...