US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on July 29 for "System and method for source authentication in voice-controlled automation" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,320, issued on July 29, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Columbia, Md.).

"System and method for source authentication in voice-controlled automation" was invented by Jeffrey Sieracki (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for authenticating sound verbalized or otherwise generated by a live source within a monitored setting for voice-controlled or sound-controlled automation of a responsive process. One or more classifiers each generate a decision value according to values of predetermined signal features extracted from a received digital stream, and a sound type classification is compu...