US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Feb. 10 for "Computer-based systems and/or computing devices configured for bulk adding and/or updating of trusted and non-trusted contacts to a phone contacts list to prevent vishing; and methods of use thereof" (Virginia, New York, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,666, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Computer-based systems and/or computing devices configured for bulk adding and/or updating of trusted and non-trusted contacts to a phone contacts list to prevent vishing; and methods of use thereof" was invented by Leeyat Bracha Tessler (Arlington, Va.), Abhay Donthi (Washington), Salik Shah (Washington), Jennifer Kwok (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Dwij Trivedi (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a set of non-trusted contacts, each contact of the set of non-trusted contacts corresponding to contact information believed to be ...