US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for external account authentication" (New York, Texas, North Carolina, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,959, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for external account authentication" was invented by Jennifer Kwok (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sara Rose Brodsky (New York), Jason Zwierzynski (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Joshua Edwards (Carrollton, Texas), Abhay Donthi (Washington) and Tania Cruz Morales (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for external account authentication are disclosed herein. They include receiving a call to pair the external account with a secure account, extracting external data from the external account, the external data corresponding to external ac...