US Patent Issued to Reality Defender on Sept. 9 for "Audio spoof detection using attention-based contrastive learning" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,910, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Reality Defender Inc. (New York).

"Audio spoof detection using attention-based contrastive learning" was invented by Gaurav Bharaj (Los Angeles), Chirag Goel (Montreal), Surya Koppisetti (Coquitlam, Canada), Ben Colman (New York) and Ali Shahriyari (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method for detecting fake audios comprises: converting audio data into an image representation of the audio data; providing the image representation of the audio data to a trained machine-learning model, the machine learning model: generating, using a trained self-attention branch, one or more r...