ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,279, issued on July 29, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Item-access-based activation of an item set for an item-restricted token associated with a primary token" was invented by Amanda Sneider (New York), Allison Fenichel (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Varun Gupta (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an item-restricted access token may be bound to one or more items. In some embodiments, a first item that is accessible via a first website accessed by a user may be detected. Based on the detection and an authentication of a user, an item-restricted access token may be activated for accessin...