ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,776, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SubStrata Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Automated classification of relative dominance based on reciprocal prosodic behaviour in an audio conversation" was invented by Baruchi Har-Lev (Herzliya, Israel), Ori Manor Zuckerman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eran Yessodi (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Alessandro Vinciarelli (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a processor and memory circuitry configured to, for at least one session comprising at least an audio content: for a first participant, extract features informative of an audio content associated with the first participant in a ...