ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,197, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Deep fake attack prevention for voice based authentication leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed ledger technology" was invented by Shahadat Hossain Mazumder (Charlotte, N.C.), Abhijit Behera (Hyderabad, India) and Maneesh Sethia (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may generate, using a generative AI model, voice based authentication prompts corresponding to a user. Upon receiving a registration request from the user, the computing platform may identify the voice based authentication prompts...