ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,981, issued on June 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Validation of a network operation related to use of a token via token-request-triggered storage of snapshot URL data" 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, validation of a network operation based on screenshot-derived uniform resource locator (URL) data may be facilitated. In some embodiments, in connection with use by a user of a first token associated with a first entity, user activity data associated with the user may be stored in...