ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,610, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Reno, Nev.).

"User identification using voice characteristics" was invented by Ahmed Fuad Siddiqui (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of methods, systems, and storage medium associated with providing user records associated with characteristics that may be used to identify the user are disclosed herein. In one instance, the method may include obtaining features of an individual, determining identifying characteristics associated with the obtained features, and initiating a search for a record associated with the individual based in part on the ide...