US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Oct. 6 for "Oral function evaluation device, oral function evaluation system, and oral function evaluation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,752, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Oral function evaluation device, oral function evaluation system, and oral function evaluation method" was invented by Masashi Ishimaru (Osaka, Japan), Yaming Zhang (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroki Kamei (Osaka, Japan), Junko Nakajima (Osaka, Japan), Jakusei Kiyosaki (Hyogo, Japan) and Yoshihiro Matsumura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral function evaluation device includes: an obtainer that obtains voice data; an extractor that extracts a feature from the voice data; an S/N ratio calculator that calculates a signal-to-...