ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,392, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Voice biometric authentication in a virtual assistant" was invented by Saurabh Mavani (Lake Hopatcong, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to voice biometric authentication in a virtual assistant. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a user device, an audio file comprising a voice command to access information related to a user account. The computing platform may retrieve one or more voice biometric signatures from a voice biometric database associated with the user account, and apply a voice bio...