ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,131, issued on April 21, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.), Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.) and Linus Health Inc. (Boston).

"Tracking articulatory and prosodic development in children" was invented by Visar Berisha (Tempe, Ariz.), Julie Liss (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Katherine Hustad (Madison, Wis.), Tristan Mahr (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and Kan Kawabata (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for tracking articulatory and prosodic development in children are disclosed. Human speech in a given language can be divided into phonem...