US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Dec. 16 for "Card skimming detection" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,446, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Card skimming detection" was invented by Benjamin Yin (McLean, Va.), Geeta Shyamala (Herndon, Va.) and Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a physical medium for card skimming detection may include a magnetic stripe, on which account information associated with a user account may be stored, one or more sensors configured to detect when information is read from the magnetic stripe, and a processor. The physical medium may detect a first read and a second read of the magnetic stripe. The physical mediu...