US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 11 for "Techniques for call authentication" (Maryland, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,270, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Techniques for call authentication" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Gaurang Bhatt (Herndon, Va.), Rocky Guo (Falls Church, Va.) and Lukiih Cuan (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein are directed towards authenticating calls by using one or more keys associated with a specific user. In examples, the user is the sender of a call. In various embodiments, when a call is made, an identifying payload is encrypted using a private key associated with the user. The encrypted identifying payload is appende...