ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,527, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Token identity devices" was invented by Lawrence Douglas (McLean, Va.) and Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and computer-readable media configured to provide wearable devices storing tokens associated with digital versions of physical documents/cards. The wearable devices may further transfer tokens securely to interested parties without Bluetooth(R) or other network connectivity beyond NFC radio. In some embodiments, a token vault operator system may receive a request to establi...