ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,806, issued on July 29, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for executing programmable macros based on external device interactions" was invented by Samuel Sharpe (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian Barr (Schenectady, N.Y.), Michael Davis (Arlington, Va.), Taylor Turner (Richmond, Va.), Justin Au-Yeung (Somerville, Mass.), Tyler Farnan (San Diego) and Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments may include a system for executing programmable macros based on external device interactions. The system may include one or more processors, and a memory in communication wi...