ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,887, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for preventing unauthorized data access" was invented by Anhui Huang (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for preventing unauthorized data access based on an analysis of time series data. For example, a request to authorize a candidate event may be received. The request can indicate sequential event data representing a sequence of events to be retrieved. Discretized event data can be generated by assigning an encoding to each event indicating an assigned temporal bucket. The discretized...