US Patent Issued to Pindrop Security on Aug. 11 for "Active voice liveness detection system" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,098, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Active voice liveness detection system" was invented by Elie Khoury (Atlanta), Ganesh Sivaraman (Atlanta), Tianxiang Chen (Atlanta), Nikolay Gaubitch (Atlanta), David Looney (Atlanta), Amit Gupta (Atlanta), Vijay Balasubramaniyan (Atlanta), Nicholas Klein (Atlanta) and Anthony Stankus (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech ("deepfakes") in a call conversation. Embodiments include systems and methods for detecting fraudulent presentation ...