ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,224, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Deepfake detection" was invented by Umair Altaf (Atlanta), Sai Pradeep Peri (Atlanta), Lakshay Phatela (Atlanta), Payas Gupta (Atlanta), Yitao Sun (Atlanta), Svetlana Afanaseva (Atlanta), Kailash Patil (Atlanta), Elie Khoury (Atlanta), Bradley Magnetta (Atlanta), Vijay Balasubramaniyan (Atlanta) and Tianxiang Chen (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. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe c...