US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on June 10 for "Utilizing a multi-function transaction card to capture item data and enable expedited checkout for purchased items" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,529, issued on June 10, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Utilizing a multi-function transaction card to capture item data and enable expedited checkout for purchased items" was invented by Adam Vukich (Alexandria, Va.), James Zarakas (Centreville, Va.) and Molly Johnson (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-function transaction card may receive, from shelf sensors, first data indicating that items have been removed from shelves by a customer of a merchant, and may receive, from shopping cart sensors, second data indicating that the items have been placed in a shopping cart. The multi-function...