ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,378, issued on May 6, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).
"Smart pseudo-palate for linguistic and biomedical applications" was invented by Yong Kyu Yoon (Gainesville, Fla.), Ratree Wayland (Gainesville, Fla.), Lori J. Altmann (Gainesville, Fla.), Saeyeong Jeon (Gainesville, Fla.), Sunghyun Hwang (Gainesville, Fla.) and Kevin Tang (Gainesville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosure relates to a smart pseudo-palate for use in a Smart Electropalatograph (EPG) for Linguistic and Medical Applications (SELMA) system. In one aspect, the pseudo-palate is constructed ...