US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 1 for "Using cryptographic tokens and gaze detection for authentication" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,638, issued on July 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using cryptographic tokens and gaze detection for authentication" was invented by Julian Duque (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for an authentication mechanism that uses cryptographic tokens and eye-tracking data. In particular, the disclosed mechanism may receive an authentication request that includes an identifier of a cryptographic token and retrieve eye-tracking data and an image associated with the cryptographic token. The eye-tracking data may store various coordinates within the image and may b...