US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 5 for "Battery charger for a transaction card" (District Of Columbia, New Jersey, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,849, issued on May 5, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Battery charger for a transaction card" was invented by Adam R. Koeppel (Washington), Molly Johnson (Alexandria, Va.), Tyler Locke (Jersey City, N.J.) and James Zarakas (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein describe a battery charger for a transaction card. According to some implementations, a charging device may detect a transaction card is received within a charging slot when an integrated circuit (IC) chip of the transaction card is in contact with a charging terminal; request a user device to provide power to charge t...