US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 28 for "Predicting a likelihood of a fall based on walking but not talking" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,821, issued on July 28, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Predicting a likelihood of a fall based on walking but not talking" was invented by Bruce D. Gunderson (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device or system and method includes accelerometer circuitry configured to generate at least one signal, a microphone configured to capture a voice of a person, a memory, and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the accelerometer circuitry, the microphone, and the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to determine when the person is walking based on the at least one signal and determin...