US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 8 for "Authorization level unlock for matching authorization categories" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,505, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Authorization level unlock for matching authorization categories" was invented by Geeta Shyamala (Herndon, Va.) and Lee Adcock (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for bypassing secondary tiers of authentication for particular security categories. An authentication system, when authenticating a user, may receive an authentication request with authentication data enabling authentication through a multi-tier authentication mechanism. When the request has been authenticated through a multi-tier authenticat...