US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on June 16 for "Systems and methods for optimizing short-range wireless read of contactless cards using video signal" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,976, issued on June 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing short-range wireless read of contactless cards using video signal" was invented by Erik Neighbour (McLean, Va.), Anatoly Ivasyuk (Falls Church, Va.) and Christopher Matthews (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods are directed to optimizing short-range wireless read operation for performing a proximity-based reading of a contactless card by an NFC reading unit of a user device. An exemplary implementation utilizes a video signal from a camera unit of the user device which is auto...