US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 16 for "Preventing unauthorized access to personal data during authentication processes" (New York, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,275, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Preventing unauthorized access to personal data during authentication processes" was invented by Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.), Viraj Chaudhary (Katy, Texas), Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.), Daniel Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y.), David Septimus (New York) and Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the security of personal information by preventing attempts at gleaning personal information from authentication questions. A computing device may receive a request for access ...