ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,864, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ACCEXIBLE IMPACTO S.L. (Urduliz, Spain).

"Detection of cognitive impairment" was invented by Javier Zaldua (Bilbao, Spain), Carla Zaldua (Bilbao, Spain), Javier Jimenez (Bilbao, Spain), Pablo De La Guardia (Bilbao, Spain), Alberto J. Coca (Bilbao, Spain), Victor Adan (Bilbao, Spain), Carmen Garcia Mateo (Bilbao, Spain), Laura Docio (Bilbao, Spain) and Pedro Montejo (Bilbao, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (1) of detecting cognitive impairment comprising: receiving audio data (21) representing recorded utterances of a patient; processing the audio data using ...