ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,828, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Mobile ID association tree for connecting shared services" was invented by Joanna Vitug Weber (Glen Allen, Va.), Ganapathi Madamadakala (Ashburn, Va.), Cara Weikel (Silver Spring, Md.), Kyle Al-Shafei (Arlington, Va.), Swapnav Deka (Plano, Texas) and Brian Murphy (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a mobile device may store information related to a mobile ID registered to the mobile device, wherein the mobile ID is an electronic identity document associated with a user of the mobile device. The mobile device may co...