ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,692, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for completing a self-executing cryptographic interaction protocol using a completion device" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.) and Austin Erickson (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for completing self-executing cryptographic interaction protocols using a completion device is disclosed. The method comprises: establishing, by the completion device, a wireless connection with a source device; receiving, from the source device, a request for completion of a self-executing cryp...