ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,202, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatus for authentication leveraging acoustic profile parameters scored by generative artificial intelligence ("AI")" was invented by Ngoc Tran (Charlotte, N.C.), Abhijit Behera (Hyderabad, India) and Maneesh Sethia (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic fingerprinting system includes an initial request from an authentic user. The input comprises a password with a plurality of keys. A smart sensor measures sounds associated with the keys. The smart sensor converts the sounds into notes that correspond to the keys. The notes may ...