ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,437, issued on May 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"NFC enabled card for consumer accessibility" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless card useful for adjusting the operation, configuration, and/or performance of a secondary device is described. The contactless card is equipped with a communication interface which allows the contactless card to transmit information to the secondary device using NFC signals. The contactless card stores accommodation information related to a physical accommodation desired by the ...