US Patent Issued to Bank of America on July 8 for "Voice surveillance system using enhanced metadata and geotagging capabilities" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,298, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Voice surveillance system using enhanced metadata and geotagging capabilities" was invented by Vinesh Patel (London) and Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods and systems for voice surveillance using enhanced metadata and geotagging capabilities are provided. Systems may monitor communications being transmitted from, and being received at, entity devices. The communications may be monitored for anomalies. The anomalies may be identified as communications outside of a regular pattern of communications. Various fact...