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World IP Day 2026 — Recognized Innovator

Payas Gupta

  • Senior Director of AI and Research
  • Pindrop Security Inc.

Recognized for building the research engine inside Pindrop Security’s voice authentication platform. From telephony fraud to deepfake defense, his inventions help answer a question that gets harder every year: is that voice real?

Certificate of Recognition

Top IP Innovator — Voice Security & AI Fraud Defense · 2026

Pindrop Patents — last 5 years
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First Filing
2028
USPTO Art Unit Focus
2658 / 2656
Role
Senior Director of AI and Research
Presented by InspireIP

World IP Day Recognition Series · 2026

Patents filed by Pindrop in last 5 years
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Filed in 2024 alone
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Recognition category
0 Voice Security
The Recognition

Protecting every voice interaction from the inside

On World IP Day 2026, InspireIP recognizes Payas Gupta for his research leadership and inventor footprint at Pindrop Security, a company whose voice authentication and fraud detection technology protects some of the world’s largest banks, insurers, and retailers.

The recognition is based on Pindrop’s patent activity and public patent records where Payas is named as an inventor. He joined Pindrop in 2014 as a security and data science consultant, two years after earning his PhD from Singapore Management University in information security, trust, and AI. Over the next decade he rose from data scientist to senior director, leading research across telephony fraud detection, deepfake audio detection, voice liveness, and caller authentication. His academic work includes best paper awards at NDSS 2013 and NDSS 2015, and publications in top security conferences including CCS and USENIX Security.

What makes this recognition distinctive is the length and consistency of the contribution. Many patent portfolios are shaped by inventors who cycle through in two or three years. Pindrop’s 115 filings over the last five years reflect a research organization that has retained its technical leaders, and Payas is one of the people who helped build that continuity.

Voice Security
Deepfake Detection
Fraud Detection
Voice Biometrics
Telephony Security
Contact Center Security
AI Governance
Patent Footprint

A portfolio shaped around voice, trust, and communications security

2011–2016

Pindrop is founded in Atlanta by Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Paul Judge, and Mustaque Ahamad. Payas Gupta, then a research scientist at NYU Abu Dhabi with a PhD in information security, joins Pindrop in 2014 as a security and data science consultant.

2017–2020

Payas's first patent filings at Pindrop appear, with his name on records covering DTMF-based authentication and secure caller verification.

2021–2023

The company continues innovating with Payas’s name named as inventor on filings covering deepfake detection in call conversations, voice liveness systems, and neural network architectures for spoof detection.

2024–2025

The company files 22 more patents across two years with Payas named alongside co-inventors on patents covering omni-channel authentication and cross-channel voice biometric enrollment.

Voice Security · Communications IP

A small-entity company filing like a category leader

Pindrop is classified as a Small Entity in the supplied patent dataset.

Yet its five-year patent activity sits well above what is typical for many companies of its size in voice security and fraud detection. With 115+ patent records across the last five years, Pindrop has continued to protect the systems behind call intelligence, voice authentication, fraud detection, liveness analysis, and real-time identity defense.

Patents in last 5 years
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Peak years
2022
USPTO entity status
Small Entity
Art unit focus
2658 / 2656
"Leading an innovation program is harder than inventing on your own. It means choosing what to file, who to credit, and where to invest, over and over, for years. The leaders we recognize on World IP Day have done that consistently, and built something that compounds."

Sam Zellner

Founder, InspireIP · Inventor · Innovation Leader

About Pindrop Security Inc.

Built in Atlanta, defending trust across enterprise conversations

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Pindrop is a voice security and authentication company whose technology protects some of the world’s largest financial institutions, insurers, and retailers. The company’s platform analyzes voice, device, and behavioral signals to detect fraud and authenticate callers across contact centers, IVR systems, and video meetings.

Pindrop has analyzed over 5 billion calls since inception, and 70% of its U.S. customers are Fortune 500 companies. In 2026, the company was named one of TIME’s 10 Most Influential Software Companies, alongside Microsoft, Adobe, and Figma. 

Pindrop’s patent activity more than a legal metric. It is the protection layer around a company working in one of the most adversarial areas of AI: separating real humans from synthetic voices, fake identities, and suspicious interactions in real time.

IP Day 2027

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