ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,613, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ClearCare Inc. (San Francisco).
"Conversation system for detecting a dangerous mental or physical condition" was invented by David Cristman (San Francisco), Jonathan J. Hull (San Carlos, Calif.), Geoffrey Howard Nudd (Atherton, Calif.), John Taylor (San Francisco) and Sarah Cook (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system to use conversation data of patients to detect dangerous mental or physical conditions, such as suicidal thoughts, physical abuse, recent falls, and viral infection. A machine learning system may be trained to identify a dangerous m...