ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,901, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating network operations via dynamic selection of access tokens" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Edward Joseph (McLean, Va.), Matthew Kloster (Falls Church, Va.) and Gavin Hickey (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a network operation may be authenticated via a dynamic selection of an access token. In some embodiments, use of a software application, configured to store a set of access tokens, in connection with processing a network operation may be detected. A risk value assoc...