US Patent Issued to PST on March 18 for "Device for estimating mental/nervous system diseases using voice" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,222, issued on March 18, was assigned to PST INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Device for estimating mental/nervous system diseases using voice" was invented by Yorio Kumamoto (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Omiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object to provide a device for estimating a plurality of mental/nervous system diseases by the voice analysis, the device being capable of estimating either major depression or bipolar disorder. Furthermore, there are provided an estimation device including an extraction means for extracting an acoustic feature amount that is not affected by a location where voices are acquired, and a m...