ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,592, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ribbon Communications Operating Co. Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for generating audio fingerprints for calls using power spectral density values" was invented by Shrirang Jangi (Acton, Mass.) and Vilas Bhade (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for processing audio signals. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: removing silence from an audio signal; determining, for a plurality of time segments of the audio signal, power spectral density values of the audio signal for each of a plurality...