ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,123, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for controlling secured data transfer via URLs" was invented by Colin Hart (Washington), Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Kaitlin Newman (Washington) and Lea Cody (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authenticated data sharing system may include a contactless card comprising a processor and a memory including one or more applets and an application comprising instructions for execution on a device. The application is configured to determine a capability associated with the contactless card after a first entry into a commun...