US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Aug. 25 for "Semantically augmented clinical speech processing" (Pennsylvania, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,813, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Semantically augmented clinical speech processing" was invented by Emin Agassi (Blue Bell, Pa.) and Jodi Kodish-Wachs (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for processing of voice input to identify intents and mapped standard terminologies are provided. Using natural language processing, an intent of a voice input is identified. The intent is utilized to identify a standard terminology that maps to the intent. The standard terminology is utilized to identify information relevant to the standard terminology in a patient'...