ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,673, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Tap to autofill card data" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Wayne Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.) and Paul Moreton (Glen Allen, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are generally directed to autofilling card data from a contactless card to a form of a computing device. An application may determine that a payment field of a form has received focus. The application may then receive encrypted data from a communications interface of a contactless card associated with an account. The application may then receive, from a server, ve...