ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,876, issued on March 31, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for launching a mobile application or a browser extension responsive to satisfying predetermined conditions" was invented by Daniel Pick (Falls Church, Va.), Zainab Zaki (Reston, Va.) and Dipukumar Muraleedharakumar (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device can receive a cryptogram from a contactless card, verify the cryptogram, and when the cryptogram has been verified and a merchant mobile application is running on the mobile device, launch a shopping mobile application and/or a shopping browser extension on the...