ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,239, issued on May 12, was assigned to BREAD FINANCIAL PAYMENTS INC. (Columbus, Ohio).
"Providing real-time replacement credit account information to a customer when an existing physical card associated with the credit account is compromised" was invented by Ann Bradstreet (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing real-time replacement credit account information to a customer when existing credit account information is compromised. The method receives a report of the compromised credit account information for a customer's existing credit account. The compromised credit account information for the...