ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,510, issued on June 17, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for activating a beacon-based service location application" was invented by Andrew Grossman (McLean, Va.), Rachel Collins (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Edward Abbott (Wilmington, Del.) and Jeremy Phillips (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method is provided for enabling and implementing a beacon-based service location application in a user device having a beacon monitoring application. A service location facilitation server establishes service need criteria for a user of the user device and estimates a service need state f...