ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,750, issued on March 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating a user at a public terminal" was invented by Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad (Champaign, Ill.) and Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for authenticating a user to access a public terminal are described. Disclosed embodiments may include reading, using the physical credential reader, a user identifier from the physical credential device. Disclosed embodiments may also include transmitting the public terminal identifier and the user identifier to ...