ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,147, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Method for determining correct scanning distance using augmented reality and machine learning models" was invented by Staevan Duckworth (The Colony, Texas), Daniel Martinez (Plano, Texas), William Hardin (Dallas), Jonathan Castaneda (Plano, Texas) and Susie Lee (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart device is provided with an application program for displaying a video feed received from the smart device's camera. The application can determine the coordinates for an intersection point, which is a point on the ground where the smart device is ...