US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on April 14 for "Establishing authentication persistence" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,883, issued on April 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Establishing authentication persistence" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.) and Thomas Poole (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are generally directed to performing an authentication persistence check and, based on the check, allowing a previously successful authentication to persist on a user apparatus. The check may involve a stability check on the user apparatus. If the user apparatus is stable, device fingerprinting on the apparatus may be performed, the result of which ma...