US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 7 for "Social media graphical interface system" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,313, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Social media graphical interface system" was invented by Bor J. Sun (San Francisco), Mark Mendez (Richmond, Va.), Jonathan R. Turfboer (Richmond, Va.), Philip Kedy (Midlothian, Va.), George H. Williams (Midlothian, Va.) and Matthew S. Butterworth (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing social media referrals based rewards to a customer. The systems and methods may provide incentives to customers of financial-service providers ("FSP") based on their referrals to the FSP. Customer referrals may be determi...