ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,484, issued on May 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for providing transaction affinity information" was invented by Daniel Alan Jarvis (Alexandria, Va.), Lawrence Hutchison Douglas Jr. (McLean, Va.) and Jeffrey Carlyle Wieker (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, the disclosed implementations include methods and systems for dynamically generating and providing transaction affinity recommendation data. In certain implementations, the transaction affinity recommendation data may include information that identifies a target merchant and associated merchant promot...