ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,900, issued on March 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Nested encryption protocol indicators for web tokens" was invented by Anand Gaddamu (Glen Allen, Va.), Mehulkumar Jayantilal Garnara (Glen Allen, Va.), Nitin Goel (Glen Allen, Va.), Anjal Shah (Glen Allen, Va.), Sweta Tiwary (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and George Fletcher (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and related system for generating and securely sending multi-recipient web tokens includes obtaining a first key associated with a first key identifier and a second key associated with a second key identifier. The method includes generati...