ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,141, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Enabling communications between applications in a mobile operating system" was invented by Stephane Lunati (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communications between applications in a mobile operating system. A first application may receive a request for data from a second application. The first application may generate a first URL to the second application, a parameter of the first URL comprising an identifier of the first application. A mobile operating system may access the first URL to ope...