US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Feb. 24 for "Card for secure parking validation" (New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,670, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Card for secure parking validation" was invented by Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia) and Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a card may communicate with an exchange terminal to complete the first exchange associated with an entity, wherein the first exchange is associated with the entity providing a validation of a second exchange associated with a charge for parking a vehicle. The card may receive, from the exchange terminal, an indication of the validation...