ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,411, issued on June 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Authentication using brain-machine interfaces" was invented by Jennifer Kwok (New York), Salik Shah (Washington) and Zviad Aznaurashvili (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a front-end device may receive, from a brain-machine interface (BMI) associated with a user, a request to authenticate the user with secret information associated with the user. Accordingly, the front-end device may transmit, to the BMI, a request for an identifier associated with one or more hardware components of the BMI. The front-end device may recei...