US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 29 for "Authentication by speech at a machine" (Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,491, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Authentication by speech at a machine" was invented by Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia) and Abdelkader M'hamed Benkreira (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a front-end device may receive a physical identifier associated with the user. Accordingly, the front-end device may select a plurality of images, where each image corresponds to a unique integer of integers zero through nine. The front-end device may show, on a display, the plurality of images and receive audio that includes a se...