Patents by Inventor Melissa McCool

Melissa McCool has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI CARE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20260171263
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided systems and methods to drive a conversation with a user. The method includes receiving conversational data from a user, embedding the conversational data, generating a reply using a response-generating AI to process the embedded conversational data and context from the knowledge base with the foundational model (e.g., LLM, multimodal, world model), and transmitting the generated reply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2025
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Inventors: Marija Stanojevic, Craig Stephen Randall, Michael Aratow, Elizabeth Ellen Shriberg, Melissa McCool, Mainul Mondal
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS BASED ON PASSIVE PROCESSING OF CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
    Publication number: 20260100259
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for identifying the severity of a mental health condition or symptoms of same by listening to a human-to-human conversation by receiving conversation data, processing the conversation data to generate a language model output and/or an acoustic model output using one or more language models and/or acoustic models. Further described herein are systems and methods for automatically tracking and providing analytics on self-report questionnaires administered during the conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Applicant: Ellipsis Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Shriberg, Piotr Chlebek, Tomasz Rutowski, Amirhossein Haratinejadtorbati, Michael Aratow, Mainul Mondal, Melissa McCool, Vaishnavi Narayanan, Ishani Tagore, Yang Lu, Tulio Goulart, Robert Rozanski
  • ACOUSTIC AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODELS FOR SPEECH-BASED SCREENING AND MONITORING OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20260024547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides acoustic and natural language processing (NLP) models for predicting whether a subject has a behavioral or mental health state of interest based at least in part on input speech from said subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2025
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Elizabeth Shriberg, Amir Hossein Harati Nejad Torbati, Tomasz Rutowski, Michael Aratow, Mainul Islam, Yang Lu, Piotr Chlebek, Melissa Mccool, David Lin
  • Acoustic and natural language processing models for speech-based screening and monitoring of behavioral health conditions
    Patent number: 12505854
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides acoustic and natural language processing (NLP) models for predicting whether a subject has a behavioral or mental health state of interest based at least in part on input speech from said subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Ellipsis Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth E. Shriberg, Amir Hossein Harati Nejad Torbati, Tomasz Rutowski, Michael Aratow, Mainul Islam, Yang Lu, Piotr Chlebek, Melissa McCool, David Lin
  • ACOUSTIC AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODELS FOR SPEECH-BASED SCREENING AND MONITORING OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20220328064
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides acoustic and natural language processing (NLP) models for predicting whether a subject has a behavioral or mental health state of interest based at least in part on input speech from said subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Elizabeth E. Shriberg, Amir Hossein Harati Nejad Torbati, Tomasz Rutowski, Michael Aratow, Mainul Islam, Yang Lu, Piotr Chlebek, Melissa McCool, David Lin