ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,163, issued on April 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Secure verification of medical status using a contactless card" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton, Mass.) and Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for verification of medical status using a contactless card. An application may receive a request specifying a subject and a medical condition. The application may receive a cryptogram from a contactless card. The application may receive a decryption result from a server and determine that the server decrypted ...