US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 7 for "Web browser plugin redirecting to a website for a vehicle database" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,018, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Web browser plugin redirecting to a website for a vehicle database" was invented by Lokesh Vijay Kumar (Frisco, Texas) and Poornima Bagare Raju (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a browser plugin may receive, from a web browser executed by a user device, an indication of a vehicle make and a vehicle model. The browser plugin may transmit, to an API function associated with the vehicle database, a query indicating the vehicle make and the vehicle model. The browser plugin may receive, from the vehicle database, a response...