ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,407, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using a virtual keyboard to enter particular input" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Lauren Fox (Herndon, Va.) and Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may receive, from a first other device, a first message, wherein the first message includes information indicating an event associated with an account of a user of the user device. The user device may provide, based on receiving the first message, a virtual keyboard for display on a display screen of the user device. The user d...