ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,002, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for automated bill splitting" was invented by Austin Walters (Columbia, Tenn.), Grant Eden (San Francisco), Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.), Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Samuel Sharpe (Cambridge, Mass.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Brian Barr (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Christopher Wallace (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments may include a system for providing automated bill splitting. The system may receive speech data. The system may identify, from the speech data and using natural language processi...