US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 7 for "Activating an output component to indicate an orientation of a near-field communication (NFC)-capable transaction card" (New Jersey, Florida, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,655, issued on July 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Activating an output component to indicate an orientation of a near-field communication (NFC)-capable transaction card" was invented by David Kelly Wurmfeld (Melbourne, Fla.), Adam Koeppel (Washington) and Tyler Locke (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction card may monitor an amount of electric current induced in a first near-field communication (NFC) component of a transaction card. Electric current may be induced in the first NFC component when the first NFC component is within an electromagnetic field generated by a second NFC c...