ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,165, issued on May 19, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Presentation and control of user interaction with an arc-shaped user interface element" was invented by Zhe Liu (McLean, Va.), Oliver Deighton (Vienna, Va.) and Melvin Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device may present, on a user interface, an arc-shaped user interface element. The user device may detect a user interaction that indicates a first point on the arc-shaped user interface element. The user device may present, on the user interface, a first arc portion of the arc. The first arc portion may r...