ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,421, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Verily Health Inc. (Dallas).

"Predicting clinically meaningful changes in behavioral health symptomatology using patient voice inputs" was invented by Jacob Reiter (San Francisco), Joel Shor (Cambridge, Mass.), Natalie Lester (Columbus, Ohio), Stefanie Nickels (Westford, Mass.), Weston Ferrer (San Francisco), Wen-sheng Tseng (Boston) and Jordan Tharp (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for predicting clinically meaningful changes in behavioral health symptomatology using patient voice inputs includes receiving a baseline behavioral sample indicating an initial behav...