US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services on Jan. 13 for "Voice control in a healthcare facility" (North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,239, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Voice control in a healthcare facility" was invented by Timothy J. Receveur (Apex, N.C.), Dan R. Tallent (Hope, Ind.), Richard J. Schuman (Cary, N.C.), Eric D. Agdeppa (Cincinnati), John S. Schroder (Apex, N.C.) and Catherine Infantolino (Neptune Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for voice control of medical devices in a healthcare facility are disclosed herein. The systems employ continuous speech processing software, voice recognition software, natural language processing software, and other software to permit voice control of the m...