ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,454, issued on March 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"One click cancel" was invented by Erik Virbitsky (Washington), Keith A. Kates (Richmond, Va.) and Marisa Lee (Washington).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects provided may allow for a user to block charges from an entity without having to contact the entity. After detecting that the user has enrolled in a trial or subscription of an entity offering, the user may be provided with the option to block charges from the entity. Using incoming data, charges from the blocked entity may be identified and prevented from being applied to the user. Further aspec...