ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,924, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Card dispenser" was invented by Carine Todmia (Upper Marlboro, Md.), Eric Medin (Chantilly, Va.) and Kelly Jo Brown (Rockville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card dispenser for dispensing a rewritable card is disclosed herein. The card dispenser may include a card feeder for receiving or dispensing a rewritable card. In addition, the card dispenser includes a roller assembly for moving the card from the card feeder to components within the card dispenser; a processor for receiving card data via a short-range wireless connection with a mobile devic...