ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,523, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for adaptive audio segmentation for contextual speech signal processing" was invented by Nipun Mahajan (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Amit Mishra (Tamil Nadu, India), Mohammed Zubair M (Tamil Nadu, India) and S. B. Pravin Kumar (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for audio segmentation for context change detection in speech is disclosed. The system accesses a speech signal of a user and identifies the user based on the voice print associated with the user. The system detects a potential context change between a first audio...