US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on June 17 for "Authentication of impaired voices" (California, North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,064, issued on June 17, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Authentication of impaired voices" was invented by Andrew J. Garner IV (State Road, N.C.), Tyua Larsen Fraser (Livermore, Calif.), Kimberly Ann MacInnis (San Francisco), Paul R. McMahon (Dayton, Minn.), Darrell Lee Suen (San Ramon, Calif.) and Zhong Wan (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for are described herein. A voice profile may be generated for a user. An audio stream may be received including an authentication voice of the user. It may be determined that the authentication voice does not match a first set of auth...