US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Feb. 10 for "Tapping a contactless card to a computing device to provision a virtual number" (Maryland, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,009, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Tapping a contactless card to a computing device to provision a virtual number" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), Colin Hart (Arlington, Va.) and Kaitlin Newman (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for tapping a contactless card to a computing device to provision a virtual number. At least one parameter for authorizing a virtual account number for a subaccount associated with a primary account may be received. An application executing on a processor circuit may re...