ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,171, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and systems for linking mobile applications to multi-access point providers to provide secure communication of encrypted user data" was invented by Fan Feng (Jersey City, N.J.), Johanna Davis (Philadelphia) and Allison Fenichel (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for adapting legacy infrastructure to account for cybersecurity, privacy, and digital integrity issues plaguing electronic communications. In particular, the methods and systems overcome these issues by generate alternative content tha...