ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,988, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc..
"Indicating health, status, or condition of a monitored target using degraded audio quality" was invented by Charles Humble (Hoschton, Ga.), Stephen F. Buchwald (Strongsville, Ohio), Benjamin James Lutterbach (Greensburg, Ind.), George Khazal (Indianapolis) and Sze K. Li (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is programmed and operated to perform a method of indicating health, status, or condition of a monitored target. In certain implementations, the method involves: obtaining at least one metric associated with the monitored target; determining a level of au...