ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,629, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and techniques to automatically maintain accurate vehicle service events for vehicles" was invented by Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira (Washington), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.) and Brendan Way (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are generally directed systems, devices, methods, and techniques to detect vehicle service events in transactions, and to store the vehicle service events in a data store."

The patent was filed on May 21, 2021, under Application No. 17/326,701.

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