US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on April 7 for "Methods, mediums, and systems for document authorization" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,039, issued on April 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods, mediums, and systems for document authorization" was invented by Jeremy Phillips (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kurry Tran (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments relate to secure documents that are capable of being in an activated or deactivated state. When in the activated state, the document may be redeemable; when in the deactivated state, the document may not be redeemable. The document may be issued in the deactivated state and may require activation before being used. In order to activate the document, a user may log in...