ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,203, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for digital media-based user authentication" was invented by Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.), Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Jackson Macomber (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for digital media-based user authentication are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the system may receive an authentication request. The system may transmit a user verification request based on the authentication request. The system may receive media recordings in response to the user verification request. The system may dete...