ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,043, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kova Corp. (Manahawkin, N.J.).

"Speech to text system and data extraction for emergency responders" was invented by Christopher Guy Stewart Silva (Sweetwater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency response communications system may identify verbal communications from a controller to first responders, then perform a speech to text conversion of the communications. From the speech to text conversion, certain parameters about the emergency situation may be extracted and used in several forms. One form may be to provide text-based alerts on signage, text-based messaging such as SMS or ...