ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,532, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Enhanced feedback exposure for users based on transaction metadata" was invented by Wesley Perkins (Henrico, Va.), Venkata Satya Sriram Kalyan Namuduri (Glen Allen, Va.), David Ross (Richmond, Va.), Andrew Coulson (Washington) and Hunter Roberts (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information co...