ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,960, issued on July 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Email processing for improved authentication question accuracy" was invented by Viraj Chaudhary (Katy, Texas), Vyjayanthi Vadrevu (Pflugerville, Texas), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.), David Septimus (New York), Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.), Jenny Melendez (Falls Church, Va.) and Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the accuracy of authentication questions using e-mail processing. A request for access to an account may be received from a user device. A plurality ...