ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,966, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Modifying application function based on login attempt confidence score" was invented by Amy Rose (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Joseph Aguayo (Fuquay Varina, N.C.) and David Stone (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Account permissions and data accessibility can be modified based on level of confidence for a login attempt to the account. User activity observations corresponding to one or more login attempts to access a user account can be stored. A confidence score associated with a successful login attempt of the user account can be determined. The confidenc...