ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,801, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SonderMind Inc. (Denver).

"Systems and methods for assessing speech data" was invented by Jonathan Knights (Lawrence Township, N.J.), Hanjie Shen (Issaquah, Wash.), Benjamin Taylor (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Virginia Quandt (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory, processor-readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide prompt data as input to a first machine learning model to produce a plurality of training phrases. The plurality of training phrases is provided as input to a second machine learning model to produce a ...