US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 19 for "Secure transactions over communications sessions" (Illinois, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,935, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Secure transactions over communications sessions" was invented by Alana Alfeche (Aurora, Ill.) and Sahana Arya (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for authenticating communications sessions, such as voice and video calls, are described herein. A communications session, such as a video or voice call, may be detected. The communications session may relate to a transaction, such as a financial transaction. An authorization request may be received during the communications session. The authorization request may be received by a s...