ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,931, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).

"Computer-implemented method for call security" was invented by Honain Derrar (Helsinki), Jussi Ruutu (Helsinki) and Ville Ruutu (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method for call security, which includes: receiving a call from a user; identifying an environment of the user during the call using acoustic scene classification; comparing the identified environment to a preconfigured environment whitelist; and in response to at least the preconfigured environment whitelist not comprising the identified environment, performing a...