US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 24 for "Transaction and receipt based alert and notification system and techniques" (Virginia, Pennsylvania, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,111, issued on March 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Transaction and receipt based alert and notification system and techniques" was invented by Latika Gulati (Annandale, Va.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia) and Lukiih Cuan (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are described that enable a sales notification application executing on the mobile device to provide an indication of a better price for a product. In the examples, product information may be obtained from product purchase receipts uploaded by mobile devices executing an instance of a sales notification application. Similarities may b...