US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 25 for "Dynamic power levels in NFC card communications" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,655, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Dynamic power levels in NFC card communications" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Rajko Ilincic (Annandale, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to dynamically and temporarily adjusting power to an NFC reader of a computing device from a first power level to a second power level based on a feedback mechanism between a contactless card and the computing device. The contactless card may provide a message containing a checksum. The computing device may receive the message and calculate a checksum based on ...