US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "System and method for secure processing of speech signals using pseudo-speech representations" (British, American, Canadian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,051, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for secure processing of speech signals using pseudo-speech representations" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Tracy, Calif.), William Francis Ganong III (Brookline, Mass.), Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda (Barcelona, Spain), Patrick Aubrey Naylor (Reading, Great Britain), Alvaro Martin Iturralde Zurita (Montrel, Canada) and Francesco Nespoli (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a speech signal. A sensitive portion of the speech signal is identified. A...