ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,360, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Speech control of a medical apparatus" was invented by Stefan Rothbauer (Augsburg, Germany), Soeren Kuhrt (Erlangen, 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, the method comprising capturing an audio signal containing operator speech input directed at controlling the apparatus; first analyzing the audio signal for a first speech analysis result; recognizing a first speech command based on the first speech analysis result; ...