US Patent Issued to Capital One Financial on Nov. 3 for "Voice-interaction device for engaging in activities" (Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,624, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Capital One Financial Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Voice-interaction device for engaging in activities" was invented by Sanjeev Singla (Novi, Mich.), Ajay Mamgain (Deerfield, Ill.), Jaya Bande (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Prince Chhabra (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice-interaction device enables a user to engage in certain activities via voice-based interaction and provision of biometric information. The voice-interaction device may be pre-provisioned with identifying information for the voice-interaction device and/or the user that may be used to initially set up the voice-interac...