ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,150, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Speech-based pulmonary assessment" was invented by Korosh Vatanparvar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Viswam Nathan (Fresno, Calif.), Ebrahim Nematihosseinabadi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Md Mahbubur Rahman (San Jose, Calif.), Tousif Ahmed (San Jose, Calif.), Jilong Kuang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Gao (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pulmonary assessment based on speech can include identifying one or more audio features and speech patterns of a user's speech. A cognitive burden associated with the user's speech can be determined. A...