Patents Assigned to PINDROP SECURITY, INC.
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Publication number: 20260290322Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe call audio and analyze the text for anomalous patterns to detect synthetic speech. Additionally or alternatively, the server executes a voice “liveness” detection system for detecting machine speech, such as synthetic speech or replayed speech. The system performs phrase repetition detection, background change detection, and passive voice liveness detection in call audio signals to detect liveness of a speech utterance. An automated model update module allows the liveness detection model to adapt to new types of presentation attacks, based on the human provided feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2026Publication date: September 24, 2026Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Umair ALTAF, Sai Pradeep PERI, Lakshay PHATELA, Payas GUPTA, Yitao SUN, Svetlana AFANASEVA, Kailash PATIL, Elie KHOURY, Bradley MAGNETTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Tianxiang CHEN
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Publication number: 20260281238Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for systems and methods for verifying authentic JIPs associated with ANIs using CLLIs known to be associated with the ANIs, allowing a computer to authenticate calls using the verified JIPs, among various factors. The computer builds a trust model for JIPs by correlating unique CLLIs to JIPs. A malicious actor might spoof numerous ANIs mapped to a single CLLI, but the malicious actor is unlikely to spoof multiple CLLIs due to the complexity of spoofing the volumes of ANIs associated with multiple CLLIs, so the CLLIs can be trusted when determining whether a JIP is authentic. The computer identifies an authentic JIP when the trust model indicates that a number of CLLIs associated with the JIP satisfies one or more thresholds. A machine-learning architecture references the fact that the JIP is authentic as an authentication factor for downstream call authentication functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2026Publication date: September 17, 2026Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.Inventors: MohammedAli MERCHANT, Yitao SUN
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Publication number: 20260281227Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for call classification and for training a model for call classification, an example method comprising: receiving DTMF information from a plurality of calls; determining, for each of the calls, a feature vector including statistics based on DTMF information such as DTMF residual signal comprising channel noise and additive noise; training a model for classification; comparing a new call feature vector to the model; predicting a device type and geographic location based on the comparison of the new call feature vector to the model; classifying the call as spoofed or genuine; and authenticating a call or altering an IVR call flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2026Publication date: September 17, 2026Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Nick Gaubitch, Scott Strong, John Cornwell, Hassan Kingravi, David Dewey
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Patent number: 12711951Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe call audio and analyze the text for anomalous patterns to detect synthetic speech. Additionally or alternatively, the server executes a voice “liveness” detection system for detecting machine speech, such as synthetic speech or replayed speech. The system performs phrase repetition detection, background change detection, and passive voice liveness detection in call audio signals to detect liveness of a speech utterance. An automated model update module allows the liveness detection model to adapt to new types of presentation attacks, based on the human provided feedback.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Umair Altaf, Sai Pradeep Peri, Lakshay Phatela, Payas Gupta, Yitao Sun, Svetlana Afanaseva, Kailash Patil, Elie Khoury, Bradley Magnetta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Tianxiang Chen
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Patent number: 12711960Abstract: Utterances of at least two speakers in a speech signal may be distinguished and the associated speaker identified by use of diarization together with automatic speech recognition of identifying words and phrases commonly in the speech signal. The diarization process clusters turns of the conversation while recognized special form phrases and entity names identify the speakers. A trained probabilistic model deduces which entity name(s) correspond to the clusters.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Elie Khoury, Matthew Garland
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Publication number: 20260237392Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. Embodiments include systems and methods for detecting fraudulent presentation attacks using multiple functional engines that implement various fraud-detection techniques, to produce calibrated scores and/or fused scores. A computer may, for example, evaluate the audio quality of speech signals within audio signals, where speech signals contain the speech portions having speaker utterances.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2026Publication date: August 13, 2026Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Tianxiang CHEN, Nikolay GAUBITCH, David LOONEY, Amit GUPTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Nicholas KLEIN, Anthony STANKUS
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Patent number: 12706098Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. Embodiments include systems and methods for detecting fraudulent presentation attacks using multiple functional engines that implement various fraud-detection techniques, to produce calibrated scores and/or fused scores. A computer may, for example, evaluate the audio quality of speech signals within audio signals, where speech signals contain the speech portions having speaker utterances.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2024Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Elie Khoury, Ganesh Sivaraman, Tianxiang Chen, Nikolay Gaubitch, David Looney, Amit Gupta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Nicholas Klein, Anthony Stankus
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Patent number: 12706089Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a machine-learning architecture system that enhances the speech audio of a user-defined target speaker by suppressing interfering speakers, as well as background noise and reverberations. The machine-learning architecture includes a speech separation engine for separating the speech signal of a target speaker from a mixture of multiple speakers' speech, and a noise suppression engine for suppressing various types of noise in the input audio signal. The speaker-specific speech enhancement architecture performs speaker mixture separation and background noise suppression to enhance the perceptual quality of the speech audio. The output of the machine-learning architecture is an enhanced audio signal improving the voice quality of a target speaker on a single-channel audio input containing a mixture of speaker speech signals and various types of noise.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 11, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Ganesh Sivaraman, Avrosh Kumar, Elie Khoury
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Patent number: 12701184Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for systems and methods for verifying authentic JIPs associated with ANIs using CLLIs known to be associated with the ANIs, allowing a computer to authenticate calls using the verified JIPs, among various factors. The computer builds a trust model for JIPs by correlating unique CLLIs to JIPs. A malicious actor might spoof numerous ANIs mapped to a single CLLI, but the malicious actor is unlikely to spoof multiple CLLIs due to the complexity of spoofing the volumes of ANIs associated with multiple CLLIs, so the CLLIs can be trusted when determining whether a JIP is authentic. The computer identifies an authentic JIP when the trust model indicates that a number of CLLIs associated with the JIP satisfies one or more thresholds. A machine-learning architecture references the fact that the JIP is authentic as an authentication factor for downstream call authentication functions.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Mohammed Ali Merchant, Yitao Sun
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Patent number: 12676144Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe call audio and analyze the text for anomalous patterns to detect synthetic speech. Additionally or alternatively, the server executes a voice “liveness” detection system for detecting machine speech, such as synthetic speech or replayed speech. The system performs phrase repetition detection, background change detection, and passive voice liveness detection in call audio signals to detect liveness of a speech utterance. An automated model update module allows the liveness detection model to adapt to new types of presentation attacks, based on the human provided feedback.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Umair Altaf, Sai Pradeep Peri, Lakshay Phatela, Payas Gupta, Yitao Sun, Svetlana Afanaseva, Kailash Patil, Elie Khoury, Bradley Magnetta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Tianxiang Chen
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Patent number: 12621382Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for call classification and for training a model for call classification, an example method comprising: receiving DTMF information from a plurality of calls; determining, for each of the calls, a feature vector including statistics based on DTMF information such as DTMF residual signal comprising channel noise and additive noise; training a model for classification; comparing a new call feature vector to the model; predicting a device type and geographic location based on the comparison of the new call feature vector to the model; classifying the call as spoofed or genuine; and authenticating a call or altering an IVR call flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2024Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Nick Gaubitch, Scott Strong, John Cornwell, Hassan Kingravi, David Dewey
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Publication number: 20260112357Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe call audio and analyze the text for anomalous patterns to detect synthetic speech. Additionally or alternatively, the server executes a voice “liveness” detection system for detecting machine speech, such as synthetic speech or replayed speech. The system performs phrase repetition detection, background change detection, and passive voice liveness detection in call audio signals to detect liveness of a speech utterance. An automated model update module allows the liveness detection model to adapt to new types of presentation attacks, based on the human provided feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2025Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Umair ALTAF, Sai Pradeep PERI, Lakshay PHATELA, Payas GUPTA, Yitao SUN, Svetlana AFANASEVA, Kailash PATIL, Elie KHOURY, Bradley MAGNETTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Tianxiang CHEN
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Patent number: 12609132Abstract: A computer may train a single-class machine learning using normal speech recordings. The machine learning model or any other model may estimate the normal range of parameters of a physical speech production model based on the normal speech recordings. For example, the computer may use a source-filter model of speech production, where voiced speech is represented by a pulse train and unvoiced speech by a random noise and a combination of the pulse train and the random noise is passed through an auto-regressive filter that emulates the human vocal tract. The computer leverages the fact that intentional modification of human voice introduces errors to source-filter model or any other physical model of speech production. The computer may identify anomalies in the physical model to generate a voice modification score for an audio signal. The voice modification score may indicate a degree of abnormality of human voice in the audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: David Looney, Nikolay D. Gaubitch
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Patent number: 12592239Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. Embodiments include systems and methods for detecting fraudulent presentation attacks using multiple functional engines that implement various fraud-detection techniques, to produce calibrated scores and/or fused scores. A computer may, for example, evaluate the audio quality of speech signals within audio signals, where speech signals contain the speech portions having speaker utterances.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Elie Khoury, Ganesh Sivaraman, Tianxiang Chen, Nikolay Gaubitch, David Looney, Amit Gupta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Nicholas Klein, Anthony Stankus
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Patent number: 12592220Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe call audio and analyze the text for anomalous patterns to detect synthetic speech. Additionally or alternatively, the server executes a voice “liveness” detection system for detecting machine speech, such as synthetic speech or replayed speech. The system performs phrase repetition detection, background change detection, and passive voice liveness detection in call audio signals to detect liveness of a speech utterance. An automated model update module allows the liveness detection model to adapt to new types of presentation attacks, based on the human provided feedback.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Umair Altaf, Sai Pradeep Peri, Lakshay Phatela, Payas Gupta, Yitao Sun, Svetlana Afanaseva, Kailash Patil, Elie Khoury, Bradley Magnetta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Tianxiang Chen
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Publication number: 20260075084Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include software processes and of machine-learning architectures for detecting and mitigating against synthetic speech instances. A computer analyzes audio speech data and metadata received with contact events associated with source identifiers. The computer executes machine-learning architecture(s) that determine whether the contact events likely include human-generated speech or machine-generated synthetic speech. The computer may determine the likelihood that contact events represent a DoS attack launched by a source device, by analyzing behavior features in metadata associated with the source identifier. The computer determines whether the contact events originated from the source user device having the source identifier launched a DoS attack and, if so, may update a blocklist.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2025Publication date: March 12, 2026Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Amit Gupta
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Publication number: 20260065913Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect machine-generated synthetic singing vocals in a vocal audio signal of an audio signal using a multi-stage machine-learning architecture. A singing detector identifies vocal segments containing singing. A singing liveness detector includes a fakeprint embedding extractor that extracts fakeprint feature vector embeddings representing artifacts of machine-generated vocal signals, scoring layers or classifier layers to generate a singing liveness score for identifying the likelihood a vocal signal is human-generated or synthetic. An optional singer detector includes a vocalprint embedding extractor that extracts vocalprint feature vector embeddings representing singer-specific vocal identity characteristics and generates a singer identification score or attribution score for identifying a particular singer in the vocal signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2025Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Hemlata Tak, Ricardo Casal, Ganesh Sivaraman, Elie Khoury
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Publication number: 20260057057Abstract: 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 (e.g., car, television, radio, phone). The system identifies users on the fly without requiring a new speaker to mirror prompted utterances for reconfiguring operations. The system manages speaker profiles as speakers provide utterances to the system. Machine-learning architectures implement a passive and continuous voice biometrics system, possibly without knowledge of speaker identities. The system creates identities in an unsupervised manner, sometimes passively enrolling and recognizing known or unknown speakers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2025Publication date: February 26, 2026Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Avrosh KUMAR, Ivan ANTOLIC-SOBAN
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Patent number: 12562150Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server that detect audio-based synthetic speech (“deepfakes”) in a call conversation. The server applies an NLP engine to transcribe call audio and analyze the text for anomalous patterns to detect synthetic speech. Additionally or alternatively, the server executes a voice “liveness” detection system for detecting machine speech, such as synthetic speech or replayed speech. The system performs phrase repetition detection, background change detection, and passive voice liveness detection in call audio signals to detect liveness of a speech utterance. An automated model update module allows the liveness detection model to adapt to new types of presentation attacks, based on the human provided feedback.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: Umair Altaf, Sai Pradeep Peri, Lakshay Phatela, Payas Gupta, Yitao Sun, Svetlana Afanaseva, Kailash Patil, Elie Khoury, Bradley Magnetta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Tianxiang Chen
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Publication number: 20260052158Abstract: Embodiments include a computing device that executes software routines and/or one or more machine-learning architectures providing improved omni-channel authentication solutions. Embodiments include one or more computing devices that provide an authentication interface by which various communication channels may deposit contact or session data received via a first-channel session into a non-transitory storage medium of an authentication database for another channel to obtain and employ (e.g., verify users). This allows the customer to access an online data channel and enter the contact center through a telephony communication channel, but further allows the enterprise contact center systems to passively maintain access to various types of information about the user's identity captured from each contact channel, allowing the call center to request or capture authenticating information (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2025Publication date: February 19, 2026Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.Inventors: MohammedAli MERCHANT, Payas GUPTA