US Patent Issued to VERINT SYSTEMS UK on July 14 for "Confidential automated speech recognition" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,761, issued on July 14, was assigned to VERINT SYSTEMS UK Ltd. (Woking, Great Britain).

"Confidential automated speech recognition" was invented by Cornelius Patrick Glackin (London) and Nigel Henry Cannings (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a secure method for outsourcing data analysis to a third party without the third party being able to access the data in clear. In the present invention, the client's data is never written to disk, this feature provides the security. The data is decrypted and processed in the enclave which ensures that the data is secure and hidden at all times when it is visibl...