US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Jan. 20 for "Detecting malicious activity associated with resetting authentication information" (Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,896, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Detecting malicious activity associated with resetting authentication information" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.) and Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may monitor initial messages to at least one message account of a user. The device may determine, based on monitoring the initial messages, that one or more messages, of the initial messages, are associated with resetting authentication information for one or more accounts of the ...