US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Jan. 27 for "Account registration using a contactless card" (Maryland, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,523, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Account registration using a contactless card" was invented by Lea Cody (Arlington, Va.), Wayne Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.) and Kaitlin Newman (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Account registration using a contactless card. A payment application executing on a device may receive a request to generate a payment account using a contactless card. The payment application may receive encrypted data from the contactless card and transmit the encrypted data to a server associated with the contactless card. The device may receive a push notification fro...