US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Jan. 13 for "Network of trust for bill splitting" (District Of Columbia, Virginia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,755, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Network of trust for bill splitting" was invented by Adam R. Koeppel (Washington), James Zarakas (Centreville, Va.), Molly Johnson (Alexandria, Va.) and Tyler Locke (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor, a wireless transceiver in communication with the processor, and a non-transitory memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform processing. The processing may include sending, by the wireless transceiver, a request to share a transaction to at lea...