ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,381, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Active OCR" was invented by Keegan Franklin (Tucson, Ariz.), James Brighter (Reston, Va.), Megan OBrien (New Orleans), John Maillett (Arlington, Va.) and Jane Justiz (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method, system and non-transitory computer-readable device for a remote deposit environment activating, on a client device, a financial application, wherein the financial application is configured to instantiate a customer interface (UI) on the client device. Upon receiving a customer request, based on interactions with the...