ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,072, issued on April 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Facilitating token use authentication for access tokens using stochastic images" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.), Benjamin Eng (Silver Spring, Md.), Youbing Yin (McLean, Va.), Dwipam Katariya (McLean, Va.), Dan Quach (McLean, Va.) and Maximo Moyer (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for facilitating token use authentication for access tokens using stochastic images. The system may detect an authentication request to authentica...