ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,442, issued on June 17, was assigned to FISERV INC. (Milwaukee).

"Card attachment system and method" was invented by Joel Harris (Missouri Valley, Iowa), Ray Stuck (Omaha, Neb.), Jon Gates (Honey Creek, Iowa), Corey Dean Tunink (Blair, Neb.) and Jay E. Greene III (Bellevue, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a folding apparatus configured to fold a card carrier for affixing a transaction card to the card carrier and a processor which can receive a first input from a user regarding a number of folds desired in the card carrier and a location of the folds on the card carrier, receive a second input regarding one o...