ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,291, issued on March 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for tracking actions using visually scannable codes" was invented by Sanjiv Yajnik (McLean, Va.), Satyajit Sajanrao Nalavade (McKinney, Texas), Sunil Raste (Plano, Texas), Eddie Provencio (Coppell, Texas), Vikramaditya Repaka (Coppell, Texas) and John Patrick Eckman (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein enable tracking user actions by generating different visually scannable codes (e.g., QR codes) for combinations of user, operator, and action(s). Each visually scannable code may be stored w...