US Patent Issued to FMR on May 12 for "Vocal signature systems and methods" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,247, issued on May 12, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Vocal signature systems and methods" was invented by Harmeet Singh (Brattleboro, Mass.), Kevin Johnson (Northborough, Mass.), Mark Muir (Dunstable, Mass.), Abhishek Kumar (Kissimmee, Fla.) and Brian Autumn (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method is provided for digitally signing a digital document related to a transaction request from a customer. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, data related to the transaction request from the customer via a web-based interface. Receipt of the transaction data initiates a request session. The met...