US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 25 for "Tokenizing authentication information" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,837, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Tokenizing authentication information" was invented by Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.), Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.) and Grant Eden (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may determine that the user device was granted access to a first set of resources by a first authentication process. The user device may receive a request to access a second set of resources. The user device may generate, based on the request, a token that indicates that ...