ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,317, issued on June 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for increasing network security related to accessing network services" was invented by Paul Warner (Reston, Va.), Sam Walczak (Columbia, Md.) and Nikhil Srikanth (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, increasing network security related to accessing network services may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a request to generate a composite hash with composite hash parameters may be received, where the composite hash parameters comprise (i) user information associated with a first user and (ii) a key. Based ...