US Patent Issued to Morgan Stanley Services Group on June 3 for "Audio speech signal analysis for fraud detection" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,554, issued on June 3, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Audio speech signal analysis for fraud detection" was invented by Cheryl Fernandes (Plainsboro, N.J.), Mehak Mehta (Jersey City, N.J.), Aratrika Sarkar (Jersey City, N.J.) and Melissa Kagaju (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system and method for analyzing audio speech signals to detect fraudulent calls to a contact center comprising splitting an audio recording of a call in real-time into a foreground speech signal attributed to a main speaker and a background audio signal, extracting audio features from the foreground speech signa...