ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,434, issued on June 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Account authentication using handwriting samples" was invented by Armando Martinez Stone (Arlington, Va.), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.) and Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain registration information, associated with an account, including one or more training handwriting samples of a user. The device may detect an initiation of an event associated with the account. The device may provide, to a terminal device associated with the event, the one or more authentication prompts to cause th...