US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Feb. 17 for "Multi-factor authentication using blockchain" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,828, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Multi-factor authentication using blockchain" was invented by Jayanth Prathipati (Aldie, Va.), Daniel Pick (Falls Church, Va.) and Colin Hart (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements in application or service authentication for a provider of disparate applications and/or services using blockchain technology. As one example, a method and a system are described herein for a unified user device authentication mechanism across multiple lines of service using cryptographic to...