ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,490, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Private data-less card device enabled for augmented reality display of data" was invented by Tai Tan Nguyen (Frisco, Texas), Renuga Mohan (Tamil Nadu, India), Preetimanda Pattanaik (Plano, Texas) and Anupama Rao (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A private data-less card device that enables augmented reality display of the private data on the card device. Characteristic of the private data-less card neither the front nor back facings of the card device have any private data used to initiate a resource event physically displayed thereon. The...