ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,710, issued on May 26, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and techniques to utilize an active link in a uniform resource locator to perform a money exchange" was invented by Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.), George Bergeron (Falls Church, Va.), Kaitlin Newman (Washington) and Colin Hart (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are generally directed to systems, device, and techniques to utilize a uniform resource locator to exchange money."

The patent was filed on May 11, 2021, under Application No. 17/317,262.

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