ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,208, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Enhanced authentication using a secure document" was invented by Jason Pribble (McLean, Va.), Swapnil Patil (Chantilly, Va.) and Erik Neighbour (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain a document that includes an identification image depicting a face of a person associated with the document. The device may obtain a live user image that depicts an image of a user. The device may extract information from the document image that includes appearance information associated with the person. The appearance info...