ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,928, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Scoring speech audiometry" was invented by Filiep J. Vanpoucke (Huldenberg, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to audiometric testing techniques. An example implementation is based on audibly providing a target word to a user and receiving a response of what the user audibly perceived in text form. The text is then converted into phonemes and compared with phonemes of the target word. In many examples, the process is repeated for multiple target words. The resulting comparison data can be used to determine the user...