ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,771, issued on June 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Context-based authentication of a user" was invented by Amanpreet Kaur Dhindsa (Aldie, Va.), Jayanth Prathipati (Aldie, Va.) and Hamza Monawer (Burke, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive a notification to authenticate a user associated with a user account of an application server. The device may send, to the user device, an authentication request that prompts the user to provide a contextual description of an operation associated with the user account. The device may receive, from the user device, an authentic...