US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Method of detecting a speech impediment and providing visual feedback as an avatar to a user" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,101, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method of detecting a speech impediment and providing visual feedback as an avatar to a user" was invented by Mrinal Kumar Sharma (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method and for providing speech assistance during a virtual meeting includes receiving a request over a communication network to provide speech assistance during a virtual meeting between a plurality of participants and analyzing speech data of the virtual meeting, via a speech impediment detection engine, to detect a speech impediment for one of the plur...