ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,138, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pindrop Security Inc. (Atlanta).

"Cross-lingual speaker recognition" was invented by Elie Khoury (Atlanta), Tianxiang Chen (Atlanta), Avrosh Kumar (Atlanta), Ganesh Sivaraman (Atlanta) and Kedar Phatak (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 for voice biometrics, in which the machine-learning architecture implements one or more language compensation functions. Embodiments include an embedding extraction engine (sometimes referred to as an "embedding extractor") that extracts speaker embeddin...