ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,051, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Modality.AI Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multimodal investigation of speech, text, cognitive and facial video features for characterizing depression with and without medication" was invented by Michael Neumann (Waiblingen, Germany), Hardik Kothare (Burlingame, Calif.), William Burke (Portland, Ore.), Doug Habberstad (Savanna, Ga.), Jackson Liscombe (Mill River, Mass.), Oliver Roesler (Syke, Germany), David Suendermann-Oeft (San Francisco), David Pautler (Sarasota, Fla.), Andrew Cornish (Gore, New Zealand) and Vikram Ramanarayanan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for remotely det...