US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Dec. 30 for "Virtual credential authentication based on browsing context" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,143, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Virtual credential authentication based on browsing context" was invented by Varun Gupta (Edison, N.J.), Allison Fenichel (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Amanda Sneider (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an authentication device may receive information related to website browsing activity at a client device. The information related to the website browsing activity may include information associated with a web address for a current website where information associated with a virtual credential was entered. The authentication device may...