US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 12 for "Blockchain systems and methods for user authentication" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,809, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Blockchain systems and methods for user authentication" was invented by Jonathan Weimer (Henrico, Va.) and Ryan Fox (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for blockchain-mediated user authentication. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, authentication may comprise operations including receiving, from a user system, an authentication request for a user. The operations may also include determining a root system for the user using a blockchain, and redirecting the user system to the root syste...