US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 25 for "Physical environment based account authentication" (Georgia, New York, Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,850, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Physical environment based account authentication" was invented by Viraj Chaudhary (Katy, Texas), Jenny Melendez (Falls Church, Va.), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.), Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia) and David Septimus (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes by using physical environment information. A computing device may receive video depicting a physical environment and process that video to identify one or more first ob...