US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 26 for "Line item transaction inference using merchant data and website interaction" (Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,183, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Line item transaction inference using merchant data and website interaction" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Francis Ogbennah (Baltimore) and Anita Eradla (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that infer which items were purchased in a transaction based on correlating a transaction record for the purchase, such as credit card receipt, with browsing records received from multiple users of vendor websites that identify individual costs of items."

The patent...