US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Sept. 16 for "Method of generating and using credentials to detect the source of account takeovers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,566, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Method of generating and using credentials to detect the source of account takeovers" was invented by Jordan Wright (San Antonio), William Jennings Woodson (San Antonio) and Justin Gray (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods that may generate so-called "honey credentials" that are transmitted to a "phishing" website, and are then stored into a honey credential database. The honey credentials appear to be valid credentials, but whenever a bad actor attempts to access an enterprise using ...