US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Jan. 27 for "Identity verification using a virtual credential" (Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,539, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Identity verification using a virtual credential" was invented by Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.), Sophie Bermudez (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Timur Sherif (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an identity verification device may receive a request to verify an identity associated with a user accessing a social media account to share information on a social media platform. The identity verification device may generate, based on the request, a virtual credential linked to a primary credential associated with a financial ...