ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,260, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Presentation and control of user interactions with a time-dependent user interface element" was invented by Erik Jay Salazar De Leon (Richmond, Va.), Thomas Dohan II (Elmhurst, Ill.), Charles Richard Hollins (Mechanicsville, Va.), Jennifer Wilkens (New Kent, Va.), Albert Berger (Arlington, Va.) and John Heiner (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may present, on a user interface (UI) associated with a user account, a first UI element. The user device may detect a user interaction, with the user device, ind...