US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 19 for "Finger-activated chip or contactless card" (District Of Columbia, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,689, issued on May 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Finger-activated chip or contactless card" was invented by Bryant Yee (Washington), Tyler Maiman (Melville, N.Y.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an integrated circuit may receive, from the front-end device and at a communication device embedded in a substrate, an incoming signal indicating a request for information. Accordingly, the integrated circuit may verify that at least one correct contact, of a plurality of contacts on the substrate, has been connected to circuitry embedded in the su...