ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,072, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Passive and continuous multi-speaker voice biometrics" was invented by Elie Khoury (Atlanta), Ganesh Sivaraman (Atlanta), Avrosh Kumar (Atlanta) and Ivan Antolic-Soban (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a voice biometrics system execute machine-learning architectures capable of passive, active, continuous, or static operations, or a combination thereof. Systems passively and/or continuously, in some cases in addition to actively and/or statically, enrolling speakers as the speakers speak into or around an edge device ...