US Patent Issued to ULTRATEC on March 4 for "Text assisted telephony on wireless device method and apparatus" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,752, issued on March 4, was assigned to ULTRATEC INC. (Madison, Wis.).

"Text assisted telephony on wireless device method and apparatus" was invented by Christopher R. Engelke (Verona, Wis.), Kevin R. Colwell (Middleton, Wis.) and Troy Vitek (Waunakee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system and method usable to facilitate communication between a hearing user and an assisted user. In particular, the system employs a wireless portable tablet or other portable electronic computing device linked to a captioning enabled phone as a remote interface for that phone, thereby providing an assisted user with more options, mo...