ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,423, issued on April 7, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Analysis of conversational attributes with real time feedback" was invented by Dana Suskind (Chicago), Arnoldo Muller-Molina (Naperville, Ill.), Snigdha Gupta (Mcdonald, Pa.) and John List (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for providing real-time feedback of conversational attributes are provided. An audio signal comprising speech is received. The audio signal is divided into a plurality of sequential windows. A plurality of features is extracted from each sequential window of the audio signal. Each plurality of features is sequent...