Patents by Inventor Elie Khoury

Elie Khoury has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250124945
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a machine-learning architecture for modeling quality measures for enrollment signals. Modeling these enrollment signals enables the machine-learning architecture to identify deviations from expected or ideal enrollment signal in future test phase calls. These differences can be used to generate quality measures for the various audio descriptors or characteristics of audio signals. The quality measures can then be fused at the score-level with the speaker recognition's embedding comparisons for verifying the speaker. Fusing the quality measures with the similarity scoring essentially calibrates the speaker recognition's outputs based on the realities of what is actually expected for the enrolled caller and what was actually observed for the current inbound caller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Hrishikesh RAO, Kedar PHATAK, Elie KHOURY
  • Patent number: 12266368
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for systems and methods for voice-based cross-channel enrollment and authentication. The systems control for and mitigate against variations in audio signals received across any number of communications channels by training and employing a neural network architecture comprising a speaker verification neural network and a bandwidth expansion neural network. The bandwidth expansion neural network is trained on narrowband audio signals to produce and generate estimated wideband audio signals corresponding to the narrowband audio signals. These estimated wideband audio signals may be fed into one or more downstream applications, such as the speaker verification neural network or embedding extraction neural network. The speaker verification neural network can then compare and score inbound embeddings for a current call against enrolled embeddings, regardless of the channel used to receive the inbound signal or enrollment signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Ganesh Sivaraman, Elie Khoury, Avrosh Kumar
  • Publication number: 20250037507
    Abstract: The embodiments execute machine-learning architectures for biometric-based identity recognition (e.g., speaker recognition, facial recognition) and deepfake detection (e.g., speaker deepfake detection, facial deepfake detection). The machine-learning architecture includes layers defining multiple scoring components, including sub-architectures for speaker deepfake detection, speaker recognition, facial deepfake detection, facial recognition, and lip-sync estimation engine. The machine-learning architecture extracts and analyzes various types of low-level features from both audio data and visual data, combines the various scores, and uses the scores to determine the likelihood that the audiovisual data contains deepfake content and the likelihood that a claimed identity of a person in the video matches to the identity of an expected or enrolled person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianxiang CHEN, Elie KHOURY
  • Publication number: 20250037506
    Abstract: The embodiments execute machine-learning architectures for biometric-based identity recognition (e.g., speaker recognition, facial recognition) and deepfake detection (e.g., speaker deepfake detection, facial deepfake detection). The machine-learning architecture includes layers defining multiple scoring components, including sub-architectures for speaker deepfake detection, speaker recognition, facial deepfake detection, facial recognition, and lip-sync estimation engine. The machine-learning architecture extracts and analyzes various types of low-level features from both audio data and visual data, combines the various scores, and uses the scores to determine the likelihood that the audiovisual data contains deepfake content and the likelihood that a claimed identity of a person in the video matches to the identity of an expected or enrolled person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianxiang CHEN, Elie KHOURY
  • Publication number: 20250029614
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods including software processes executed by a server for obtaining, by a computer, an audio signal including synthetic speech, extracting, by the computer, metadata from a watermark of the audio signal by applying a set of keys associated with a plurality of text-to-speech (TTS) services to the audio signal, the metadata indicating an origin of the synthetic speech in the audio signal, and generating, by the computer, based on the extracted metadata, a notification indicating that the audio signal includes the synthetic speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: David LOONEY, Nikolay GAUBITCH, Elie KHOURY
  • Patent number: 12190905
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a machine-learning architecture for modeling quality measures for enrollment signals. Modeling these enrollment signals enables the machine-learning architecture to identify deviations from expected or ideal enrollment signal in future test phase calls. These differences can be used to generate quality measures for the various audio descriptors or characteristics of audio signals. The quality measures can then be fused at the score-level with the speaker recognition's embedding comparisons for verifying the speaker. Fusing the quality measures with the similarity scoring essentially calibrates the speaker recognition's outputs based on the realities of what is actually expected for the enrolled caller and what was actually observed for the current inbound caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Rao, Kedar Phatak, Elie Khoury
  • Patent number: 12142083
    Abstract: The embodiments execute machine-learning architectures for biometric-based identity recognition (e.g., speaker recognition, facial recognition) and deepfake detection (e.g., speaker deepfake detection, facial deepfake detection). The machine-learning architecture includes layers defining multiple scoring components, including sub-architectures for speaker deepfake detection, speaker recognition, facial deepfake detection, facial recognition, and lip-sync estimation engine. The machine-learning architecture extracts and analyzes various types of low-level features from both audio data and visual data, combines the various scores, and uses the scores to determine the likelihood that the audiovisual data contains deepfake content and the likelihood that a claimed identity of a person in the video matches to the identity of an expected or enrolled person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianxiang Chen, Elie Khoury
  • Publication number: 20240363123
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Tianxiang CHEN, Nikolay GAUBITCH, David LOONEY, Amit GUPTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Nicholas KLEIN, Anthony STANKUS
  • Publication number: 20240363103
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20240363119
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Tianxiang CHEN, Nikolay GAUBITCH, David LOONEY, Amit GUPTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Nicholas KLEIN, Anthony STANKUS
  • Publication number: 20240363099
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20240363125
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Tianxiang CHEN, Nikolay GAUBITCH, David LOONEY, Amit GUPTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Nicholas KLEIN, Anthony STANKUS
  • Publication number: 20240363124
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Tianxiang CHEN, Nikolay GAUBITCH, David LOONEY, Amit GUPTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Nicholas KLEIN, Anthony STANKUS
  • Publication number: 20240363100
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Elie KHOURY, Ganesh SIVARAMAN, Tianxiang CHEN, Nikolay GAUBITCH, David LOONEY, Amit GUPTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Nicholas KLEIN, Anthony STANKUS
  • Publication number: 20240355337
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20240355319
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20240355334
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20240355336
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20240355323
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: PINDROP SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Umair Altaf, Sai Pradeep PERI, Lakshay PHATELA, Payas GUPTA, Yitao SUN, Svetlane AFANASEVA, Kailash PATIL, Elie KHOURY, Bradley MAGNETTA, Vijay BALASUBRAMANIYAN, Tianxiang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240355322
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: 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