ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,165, issued on April 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Stateless web elements that decode or decrypt data" was invented by Erol Unal (Allen, Texas), Jason Vanderslice (Plano, Texas), Mark Morrison (Plano, Texas) and Preetha Veeraraghavan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may receive, from a web host, code associated with a webpage. The user device may perform, using a host application, at least one call to an application programming interface (API) function on behalf of a stateless web element in the webpage. The user device may receive, in response to the at...