ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,831, issued on March 3, was assigned to Daon Technology (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"Methods and systems for training a machine learning model and authenticating a user with the model" was invented by Raphael Blouet (Talence, France) and Ana Mantecon (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a machine learning model to conduct authentication transactions is provided that includes the steps of obtaining, by an electronic device, a training dataset of audio signals. Each audio signal includes voice biometric data of a user and information for a passphrase spoken by the respective user and belongs to a same or different da...