ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,641, issued on March 31, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Processing an input stream of a user device to facilitate security associated with an account of a user of the user device" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Lauren Fox (Herndon, Va.) and Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may obtain an input stream, wherein the input stream is obtained via a virtual keyboard provided by the user device. The user device may process the input stream to determine that the input stream includes particular information. The user device may cau...