ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,213, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Clover Network LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Touch screen device for entering data using auditory signals" was invented by Cheryl N. Berkowitz (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jeff Blatman (San Jose, Calif.), Mary Katie Haritos (Seneca, S.C.), Siva Raja Sekhar Reddy Yeruva (Menlo Park, Calif.), Wako Takayama (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jacob Whitaker Abrams (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a display and one or more processors that cause a speaker associated with the device to serially recite a plurality of auditory cues. Each of the plurality of auditory cues corresponds to one ...