US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 31 for "Inter-entity virtual credential generation" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,658, issued on March 31, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Inter-entity virtual credential generation" was invented by Xian Chen (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device, may transmit, to an interface system, a request for credential information associated with a user. The device may receive, responsive to the request, the credential information associated with the user, where the credential information indicates a primary credential associated with a physical card. The device may generate a virtual credential for the physical card, where the virtual credential is mapped to the ...