ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,334, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Christopher Flynn (Cherrybrook, Australia).

"Interactive communication training device" was invented by Christopher Flynn (Cherrybrook, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention presents an interactive communication training device that can be thrown and caught. The communication training device includes an information display viewable from outside the device, a microphone, a wireless transceiver and a microcontroller. A battery is contained inside the device to power electronic components. The microcontroller performs speech recognition to detect equivalence between speech...