ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,660, issued on July 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Generating a screening interface for communications" was invented by Asher Smith-Rose (Midlothian, Va.), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.), Lin Ni Lisa Cheng (New York) and Salik Shah (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for manipulating a communication acceptance screen, manipulating an interactive communication acceptance icon, and restricting access to accounts based on voice communication parameters. In particular, when a communication is detected from one device to another device, that communication may be ri...