US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 15 for "Systems and methods for authenticating via photo modification identification" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,678, issued on July 15, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating via photo modification identification" was invented by Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.), Grant Eden (San Francisco), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.) and Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems described herein relate to authenticating users-based on generating images that have modified features. More specifically, the methods and systems generate these images by processing existing training data to identify a common feature in existing photos that ...