ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,926, issued on March 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Automated teller machine and mobile computing device with synchronized displays" was invented by Janak Dadhaniya (San Francisco), Matthew Wilson (San Francisco), Lisa Whitsitt (Millbrae, Calif.), Cheng Xu (San Francisco), Robert Smith (Crozier, Va.), Steve Faletti (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and David Wurmfeld (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated teller machine (ATM) has a display and a wireless communication interface. The ATM may detect a proximity of a mobile computing device and exhibit on its display an indication of the proximity o...