[May 15, 2013] NSA Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The U.S. National Security Agency has been assigned a patent (8,442,825) developed by Michael Sinutko, Glen Burnie, Md., for a biomimetic voice identifier. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device for voice identification including a receiver, a segmenter, a resolver, two advancers, a buffer, and a plurality of IIR resonator digital filters where each IIR filter comprises a set of memory locations or functional equivalent to hold filter specifications, a memory location or functional equivalent to hold the arithmetic reciprocal of the filter's gain, a five cell controller array, several multipliers, an adder, a subtractor, and a logical non-shift register. Each cell of the five cell controller array has five logical states, each acting as a five-position single-pole rotating switch that operates in unison with the four others. Additionally, the device also includes an artificial neural network and a display means." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2011 (13/200,034). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,42,825.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,825&RS=PN/84,42,825 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. AM0515JA0515-877449 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]