ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,780, issued on April 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Techniques to perform dynamic call center authentication utilizing a contactless card" was invented by Francis Ogbennah (Baltimore), Katherine Mchugh (Richmond, Va.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems to perform authentication utilizing a mini-application."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/850,278.

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