US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on June 16 for "Verifying a trusted entity's identification via proximity-based data" (Virginia, Georgia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,277, issued on June 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Verifying a trusted entity's identification via proximity-based data" was invented by Armando Martinez Stone (Arlington, Va.), Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.) and Bryant Yee (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of verifying a user's identity using trusted members of the user's community are provided. Users may request trusted friends and family members register as vouching users. If a user needs to confirm the user's identity, such as during a multifactor authentication verification or in the event of a forgotten credential, vouching...