ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,862, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for providing secure conversation gateway" was invented by Stephanie J Schrieber (Galena, Ohio), Thomas Helfand (Lucas, Texas), Nikhil Dhoble (Plano, Texas), Matthew D Matheny (Mount Vernon, Ohio), David A Butler (Philadelphia), Stephen Johnson (New Albany, Ohio), Robert C Buchser (Blacklick, Ohio) and Ravi Kappagantu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a secure conversation gateway by which an audio voice stream is made to be replicable and convertible into other media types are provided. The...