ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,123, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using augmented reality data as part of a fraud detection process" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Eric Loucks (Tysons, Va.) and Jacob Learned (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fraud detection system may identify a suspected fraudulent transaction based on one or more criteria. The transaction may be associated with a user. Based on identifying a suspected fraudulent transaction, the fraud detection system may receive augmented reality data from an augmented reality device of the user. The fraud detection system may determin...