US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 13 for "Activation of short-range wireless communication via remote activation signal" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,205, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Activation of short-range wireless communication via remote activation signal" was invented by Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Ernest Kwak (Urbana, Ill.), Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.) and Vincent Pham (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive an activation signal transmitted by an activator device. The device may determine that a first signal pattern of the activation signal matches a second signal pattern associated with activating the Blu...