US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on March 25 for "Devices and methods for selective contactless communication" (Maryland, Virginia, District Of Columbia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,393, issued on March 25, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Devices and methods for selective contactless communication" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Kaitlin J. Newman (Washington), Wayne David Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.), Kevin Grant Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.) and Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, resp...