ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,797, issued on July 29, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"User pairing and triggering activities using event data" was invented by Leeyat Bracha Tessler (Arlington, Va.), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.) and Phoebe Atkins (Rockville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a server may receive, from a first user, an indication of a first set of times and receive, from the second user, an indication of a second set of times. The server may determine a first location associated with the first user and a second location associated with the second user. Accordingly, the server may identify a set of...