US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, The Regents of the University of Colorado on Aug. 26 for "System and method for automated observation and analysis of instructional discourse" (Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,658, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"System and method for automated observation and analysis of instructional discourse" was invented by Sean P. Kelly (Pittsburgh) and Sidney D'Mello (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing instructor discourse includes recording an audio signal representing speech of the instructor during a class session, converting the audio signal to a session transcript comprising speech data for the session using an automatic speech recognit...