US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 13 for "Systems and methods for authenticating a user identity using a sound device" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,076, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for authenticating a user identity using a sound device" was invented by Justin Bowers (Richmond, Va.), Karthik Nagesh (Arlington, Va.) and Christopher Matthews (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for authenticating a user identity using a sound device, the sound device comprising a card including a plurality of texture protrusions, including establishing an audio connection between a user device and an authentication system, instructing a user of the user device to generate real-time sound data, receivin...