ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,832, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Message authenticated communication sessions" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Gaurang Bhatt (Herndon, Va.), Lukiih Cuan (Washington) and Rocky Guo (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may allow for the generation of a message to be sent to an intended recipient of a request for a communication session prior the initiation of the communication session. The system may monitor applications and associated devices to determine the initiation of the communication session. Based on such a determination, t...