US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 7 for "Using the NFC field from a phone to power card to phone bluetooth communications" (Maryland, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,399, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using the NFC field from a phone to power card to phone bluetooth communications" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Daniel Herrington (New York) and William Carroll (Huntingtown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless card with power harvesting unit is described. The power harvesting unit is configured to harvest power from near field communication radio wave fields and supply power to a memory, processor, and communication circuit of the contactless card. In some embodiments, the contactless...