US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on Nov. 4 for "Devices and methods for providing emergency information using a payment card" (New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,121, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Devices and methods for providing emergency information using a payment card" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Abdelkader Benkreira (New York) and Michael Mossoba (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card for storing both emergency information and payment information is disclosed. The card can be used by an emergency responder to retrieve emergency information for the user. The emergency information can enable the emergency responder to better render aid to the user. The card can have one or more processors, a sensor, and a memory...