ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,796, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DRAGER SAFETY AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Process and arrangement for transmitting a voice message" was invented by Michael Brodersen (Lubeck, Germany) and Heiko Marz (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission process and arrangement transmit a voice message from a sender-side voice input unit (6) to a recipient-side voice output unit (13). The input voice message (SN.E) is converted into a voice message signal (SS.E) that is transmitted via a transmission channel (U), and is converted back into a voice message (SN.A) and output by a recipient-side voice output unit (1...