US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on May 20 for "Using common identifiers related to location to link fraud across mobile devices" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,149, issued on May 20, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using common identifiers related to location to link fraud across mobile devices" was invented by Lawrence H. Douglas (McLean, Va.), Eric Volles (Mechanicsville, Va.) and Ya Liu (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and devices for countering fraudulent transactions by identifying devices associated with fraudulent activity. Examples relate to a system which compares identification parameters of devices associated with fraudulent activity, directly or indirectly, to identification p...