ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,803, issued on July 28, was assigned to Shandong University (Jinan City, China).

"Method and system for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease based on multimodal deep learning" was invented by Xin Ma (Jinan, China) and Cuihua Lv (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease based on multimodal deep learning is provided. Audio-visual data of a to-be-diagnosed subject while performing a speech task is acquired. The audio-visual data are preprocessed to extract a plurality of audio segments and a plurality of video segments. A face image sequence is extracted from each of the plurality...