US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 22 for "Methods and arrangements for user authentication" (Illinois, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,076, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and arrangements for user authentication" was invented by Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.), Christopher Wallace (San Francisco), Samuel Sharpe (Cambridge, Mass.), Grant Eden (San Francisco) and Jeremy Edward Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logic may receive one or more heatmaps captured by one or more user devices associated with a user, wherein each of the one or more heatmaps include data related to wireless communications. The logic may store the one or more heatmaps in a heatmap data structure associated with a user p...