ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,492, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Speech control of a medical apparatus" was invented by Soeren Kuhrt (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Rothbauer (Augsburg, Germany) and Lennart Kilian (Gauting, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments provides a method for speech control of a medical apparatus, a corresponding speech control apparatus, a medical system comprising the speech control apparatus, a computer program product and a computer-readable storage medium."

The patent was filed on Sept. 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/949,540.

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