ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,395, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Aegis-CC LLC (Los Angeles).

"Methods and systems for identity verification using voice authentication" was invented by Alexander Tai Ott (Los Angeles) and Gary Dean Ott (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a voice authentication process, a code is transmitted to a first user electronic address. A determination is made as to whether the code was received from the first user and a second user within a threshold time period, and if so, the first and second users are enabled to record a consent verification script. Characteristics of the first user recording are compared with those of...