ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,897, issued on Dec. 16.

"System and method for authentication of processed audio files" was invented by Venkata Satya Sivajee Pinnamaneni (Dardenne Prairie, Mo.), Sachin Kumar Singh (Pune, India) and Kaushal Shetty (Thane (W) Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio file authentication system configured to extract a plurality of audio features for a plurality of raw audio files containing a digital recording of a specific user's voice, provide an authenticated audio file that includes a digital recording the specific user's voice based on the authentication information for the specific user, generate a parent hash k...