US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Nov. 11 for "Near-field communication functionality for partial applications accessed over a network" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,253, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Near-field communication functionality for partial applications accessed over a network" was invented by Wayne Lutz (Fort Washington, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementation, a device may execute a web-browsing application installed on the device. The device may scan, by a near-field communication (NFC) reader of the device and in connection with the web-browsing application, an NFC tag of an interaction card associated with an account of a user. The device may receive, from the interaction card, data associated with the account of the ...