US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for use of capacitive member to prevent chip fraud" (New York, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,821, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for use of capacitive member to prevent chip fraud" was invented by Daniel Herrington (New York), Stephen Schneider (Midlothian, Va.) and Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of systems and methods for preventing chip fraud are provided. A chip fraud prevention system may comprise a device including a chip, wherein the chip is at least partially encompassed in a chip pocket. One or more connections may be communicatively coupled to one or more surfaces of the chip, and a capacitance member ma...