“The system generates an authentication dataset using the detected airborne acoustic waves and the detected vibration of tissue, and authenticates the user based in part on the authentication dataset,” Meta says.
Several weeks ago tech giant Meta was granted patent rights to an obscure idea from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled “User Authentication Using Combination Of Vocalization And Skin Vibration.” While it is currently unknown what this would be used for, it is definitely a new type of user verification.
According to the patent filing’s abstract, it was filed in December 2022 and recently accepted on June 27th, 2024, and is described as:
An audio system configured to authenticate a user. The system detects, via a microphone array, airborne acoustic waves corresponding to a vocalization of a user. The system also detects, via a vibration measurement assembly, vibration of tissue of the user caused by the vocalization. The system generates an authentication dataset using the detected airborne acoustic waves and the detected vibration of tissue. The system may authenticate the user based in part on the authentication dataset.
Meta claims in its filing that the reason for this new type of authentication is because speech recognition is the most reliable and secure. “Solely using voice biometrics may not be safe as one person can easily hack another person’s voice (either through computer generation, or by impersonating their voice) in order to hack the device. Accordingly, there is a security concern with voice-only activation authentication systems,” the company stated.
Meta provided a more detailed summary as to how this new invention would operate…
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