ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,674, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method enabling mobile near-field communication to update display on a payment card" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Colin Hart (Arlington, Va.), Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.) and Rajko Ilincic (Annandale, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and methods enabling updating of a card number of a payment card and thereby reissuing the payment card utilizing a reissue application associated with the payment card. The reissue application, when executed communicates with a service provider that manages the paymen...