ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,337, issued on July 14, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for generation of virtual account-linked card" was invented by Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Michael Mossoba (Arlington, Va.) and Abdelkader Benkreira (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for generating virtual account-linked cards are described. A virtual account-linked card may be generated in response to a determination that a physical account-linked card has been forgotten at a card reader and ingested by the card reader. A virtual account-linked card may be restricted such that it can only ...