ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,854, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ellipsis Health Inc. (San Francisco).

"Acoustic and natural language processing models for speech-based screening and monitoring of behavioral health conditions" was invented by Elizabeth E. Shriberg (Berkeley, Canada), Amir Hossein Harati Nejad Torbati (Toronto), Tomasz Rutowski (Gdansk, Poland), Michael Aratow (Mountain View, Calif.), Mainul Islam (San Francisco), Yang Lu (Waterloo, Canada), Piotr Chlebek (Gdynia, Poland), Melissa McCool (San Francisco) and David Lin (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides acoustic and natural language processing (N...