ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,106, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for data access control of secure memory using a short-range transceiver" was invented by Jeffrey Wieker (Fairfax, Va.), Patrick Zearfoss (Leesburg, Va.) and Clayton Johnson (Edgewood, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling data access through the interaction of a short-range transceiver, such as a contactless card, with a client device are presented. Data access control may be provided in the context of creating and accessing a secure memory block in a client device, including handling requests to obta...