ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,874, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Artificial intelligence-supported proxy worker detection using voice authentication" was invented by Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio), Ava Elizabeth Wallace (Charlotte, N.C.) and Christopher D. Nobile (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a voice authentication platform. The voice authentication platform may monitor remote communications to identify a first voice sample. The voice authentication platform may train a voice authentication model to output similarity scores, based on the first voice sample. T...