US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on April 22 for "Secure authentication" (District Of Columbia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,536, issued on April 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Secure authentication" was invented by Emily Smith (Washington) and Erik Neighbour (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for authenticating a user. A security device may use an object associated with a user and a device of the user to authenticate the user, for example, if the user has forgotten a password. A user may insert the object (e.g., a card, or other object) into the security device and may select an option to authenticate via a device that is trusted by both the security device and the user, rat...