ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,656, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and systems for deconflicting data from multiple sources in computer systems" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Carrollton, Texas), Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira (Washington) and Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication. The system described uses contextual knowledge-based authentication. By verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication, the verification is both more secur...