US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on June 17 for "Generating user group definitions" (Virginia, Massachusetts, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,000, issued on June 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Generating user group definitions" was invented by Samuel Sharpe (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Bayan Bruss (Washington) and Maximo Moyer (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for generating group definition sequences for accounts (e.g., user accounts) using action sequence processing and then classifying accounts using those group definition sequences. A plurality of user account actions and corresponding time that each action was taken may be received and based on that information, a sequence of action ty...