ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,938, issued on July 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and arrangements for self-service printing via authentication based on a contactless card" was invented by Renee Gill (New York) and Joshua Edwards (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to enable self-service printing with authentication includes receiving, by a server, a print-request to print a document associated with an account, the print-request received from a computing device. The method further includes adding, by the server, a print job for the document in a print queue associated with the account....