US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 15 for "Method of contextual speech decoding from the brain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,275, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method of contextual speech decoding from the brain" was invented by Edward F. Chang (Oakland, Calif.) and David A. Moses (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of contextual decoding and/or speech decoding from the brain of a subject. The methods include decoding neural or optical signals from the cortical region of an individual, extracting context-related features and/or speech-related features from the neural or optical signals, and decoding the context-related features and/or speech-related feat...