US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on Feb. 4 for "Authentication based on detection of user-specific authentication input errors" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,984, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Authentication based on detection of user-specific authentication input errors" was invented by Matthew Louis Nowak (Midlothian, Va.), Michael Anthony Young Jr. (Henrico, Va.) and Christopher McDaniel (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computing system may monitor authentication input and modify authentication requirements based on detection of user-specific input errors. The computing system may use machine learning or other techniques to detect whether an incorrect authentication input corresponds to a common input mis...