US Patent Issued to Pindrop Security on Aug. 12 for "Age estimation from speech" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,742, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Age estimation from speech" was invented by Amruta Saraf (Atlanta), Elie Khoury (Atlanta) and Ganesh Sivaraman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods including computing-processes executing machine-learning architectures implementing label distribution loss functions to improve age estimation performance and generalization. The machine-learning architecture includes a front-end neural network architecture defining a speaker embedding extraction engine of the machine-learning architecture, and a backend neural network architect...