US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Feb. 3 for "Generating barcodes utilizing cryptographic techniques" (Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,667, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Generating barcodes utilizing cryptographic techniques" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.) and Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are generally directed to secure generation of barcodes using cryptographic techniques. An application may receive a request to generate a barcode. The application may receive encrypted data from a communications interface of a contactless card associated with an account. The application may receive, from a server, verification of ...