US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for mobile device-based item acquisition and tracking" (Virginia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,500, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for mobile device-based item acquisition and tracking" was invented by Lawrence Hutch Douglas (McLean, Va.), Thomas Christopher Clarke (Apex, N.C.) and Deborah Nally (Williamsburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling mobile device-based item acquisition and tracking. One exemplary method performed on a mobile device comprises entering a wireless scan mode, detecting a signal from a tag associated with an item in a first area and in proximity to the tag, presenting ...