ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,677, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and systems for binding entity-restricted access tokens" was invented by Jeffrey Carlyle Wieker (Falls Church, Va.) and Pavel Fort (Westbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an entity-restricted access token may be bound to an entity set. In some embodiments, use of an entity-restricted access token may be detected for an action related to a first entity. Based on the detected use of the token, a plurality of entity sets associated with the first entity may be determined, and a notification (e.g., requesting selection from...